CIRCA 1780, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL

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A GEORGE III ROSEWOOD, KINGWOOD AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY WRITING-TABLE
CIRCA 1780, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL
The rectangular top with earred angles inlaid with a parrot and an engraved floral spray within an oval reserve above a green leather-lined writing surface, the frieze with contrasting scrolling foliate inlaid motif and two side drawers above square tapering legs joined by an undertier platform with concave-fronted sides inlaid with a flowerhead within C-scrolls, and terminating in upswept foliate caps, extensive shrinkage, crack to top
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 16½ in. (42 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The bureau-dressing-table, appropriate for a lady's bedroom appartment, is conceived in the 1770s French/antique fashion. The table's elegant architecture and boulle-fashioned bird relates in particular to the taste introduced to London in the 1760s by Paris-trained ébénistes, such as George Haupt and Christopher Förloh, thought to have been employed by John Linnell (d.1796). The latter is thought to have supplied the related furniture at Osterley Park, Middlesex, in the mid 1760s.

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