A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND EBONISED-INLAID FOUR-TIER BOOKSTAND

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND EBONISED-INLAID FOUR-TIER BOOKSTAND
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With graduating revolving tiers, each with faux bookspines, below a ball finial, with five simulated frieze drawers, on a baluster column and reeded downswept legs, brass caps and casters, with Norman Adams dealer's label, the handles probably replaced; with a set of fifteen leather and marbled book-spine divides of wedge-shaped form, one inscribed 'Crown 8vo'
71½ in. (182 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) diameter

Provenance

with Norman Adams Ltd., London.

Lot Essay

Messrs. Morgan and Sanders patented a related 'moveable bookcase' which featured in R. Ackermann's The Repository of Arts in March 1810. A similar model is illustrated in C. Musgrave, Regency Furniture, London, 1961, fig. 77A. Another closely comparable was sold, the property of a Lady, Christie's, London, 7 April 1983, lot 129.

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