CIRCA 1840

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN WALNUT AND BURR-WALNUT DOUBLE-SIDED WRITING TABLE
CIRCA 1840
In the gothic taste, the later green-leather writing-surface above three frieze drawers, with three conforming drawers to the reverse all decorated with panels of blind tracery, the trestle end-supports joined by a turned stretcher, on square block feet and castors, the locks stamped "H & C"
29 in. (74 cm.) high; 66 in. (168 cm.) wide; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) deep

Literature

See E.T. Joy, 19th Century Furniture, pp. 130, showing a card-table ensuite to this lot

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The table is designed in the George IV antiquarian fashion promoted by the architect and furniture-maker Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (d.1852) and lauded in R. Ackermanns, Repository of Arts, 1825-27. Ackermann and Co. also published Pugin's etchings entitled Designs for Iron & Brass Work in the style of the 15th and 16th centuries. The latter included an armoire, whose pillars were fretted in flowered lozenge trellis as features on this table. Such ornament also appears on the Henry VII choirs stalls in Westminster Abbey (see H. Roberts, "James Wyatt's Furniture for the Palace of Westminster", Furniture History Society Journal, pp.99-108 and fig.9).

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