CIRCA 1820

Details

A Regency mahogany, rosewood-crossbanded and ebony-inlaid sofa table
Circa 1820
The two frieze drawers with internal dust-covers and inscribed to the underside '3' and '4' and one 'M', with a later paper property label for Princess Margaret
28¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 56 in. (142 cm.) fully extended; 23½ in. (60 cm.) deep

Provenance

Placed in the Drawing Room of the Private Apartment of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon at Kensington Palace.

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Lot Essay

The lady's writing-table, with folding candle flaps, is designed to accompany the fashionable 'Grecian' fire-side sofas introduced around 1800, and is mosaiced with Grecian-black inlay. The plinth for its Pompeian pillars has a Grecian-scrolled 'claw' terminating in Bacchic lion-paws, as featured in Thomas Sheraton's 1804 pattern for a drawing-room 'loo' central table (The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer, and General Artist's Encyclopaedia, 1804-8, pl.40). A related satinwood sofa-table, with cut-cornered top and with pearl-centred and lozenged inlay, was sold Sotheby's, London, 1 May 1987, lot 128.

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