Lot 73
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A MID-VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED SATINBIRCH WRITING-TABLE
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A MID-VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED SATINBIRCH WRITING-TABLE

BY HOLLAND & SONS, CIRCA 1870

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A MID-VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED SATINBIRCH WRITING-TABLE
BY HOLLAND & SONS, CIRCA 1870
The rectangular top with leaf-cast edge, above a frieze decorated with ribbons, floral garlands and cartouches, incorporating two cedar-lined drawers, some handles replaced, on fluted tapering legs headed by carved acanthus and joined by turned stretchers, with brass castors, stamped 'HOLLAND & SONS', refreshments to the decoration
39 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 53 in. (135 cm.) wide; 29¼ in. (74 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The bureau-dressing-table, with its palm-wrapped columnar legs and laurel-festooned lyric-poetry trophy of musical instruments, reflects the 'Adams' style encouraged by the South Kensington Museum's 1870 acquisition of a painted satinwood dressing-table, and adopted soon afterwards by Messrs Holland and Son for furnishing bedroom apartments at Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, which had been built a century earlier to the designs of the architect Robert Adam (d.1796) (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1962, no. U/11).

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