FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS

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A REGENCY GILT-BRASS MOUNTED ROSEWOOD WRITING-TABLE
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS
The rounded rectangular top with pierced anthemion gallery above two inlaid frieze drawers, with opposing false drawers, on end supports with scrolled brackets and shaped stretcher, with gilt paw feet and castors
31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 46 in. (117 cm.) wide; 28½ in. (72 cm.) deep

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

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Please be aware that this lot contains rosewood and will need a CITES licence in order to be exported outside of the EU. Please call Leah Heneghan on (020) 7389 2828 for further details.

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Lot Essay

The Grecian palm-railed sofa-table of black-figured rosewood is designed in the early l9th century French/antique fashion promoted by T.Hope's, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. Its patera-enriched stretcher and altar plinth-supported pilasters raised on the palm-flowered paw feet griffin sacred to the poetry-deity Apollo, correspond to those of a brass-railed rosewood table that is amongst the furniture likely to have been acquired for Belton, Lincolnshire by John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow (d.1853) following his employment in 1809 of the architect Jeffrey Wyatt (F.Macpherson, Belton House Guide Book, n.d., p.5).

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