THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Of square shape, the tooled green leather-lined moulded top, above a frieze drawer with divisions, the concave-sided undertier with pierced-fretted gallery, above lappet-headed legs terminating in pad feet, with leather castors, with green and white paper label to the underside 'LORD WARDINGTON/ROAD STORE/AC/03.000473/21 04 04/68/GM', and inscribed in ink 'WARDINGTON MANOR BANBURY, NR', the drawer originally with handles, the two front ears original, the top apparently original
27¼ in. (69 cm.) high; 20 in. (51 cm.) wide; 19¼ in. (49 cm.) deep

Provenance

2nd Lord Wardington, Wardington Manor, Banbury, Oxfordshire.

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Lot Essay

Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease (1924-2005), 2nd Lord Wardington, born into a Quaker banking family, was the son of John William Beaumont Pease, former Chairman of Lloyds Bank who was made 1st Lord Wardington in 1936. 2nd Lord Wardington, a former Captain in the Scots Guard during World War Two, was a leading English bibliophile.

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