AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, 20TH CENTURY

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AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, 20TH CENTURY
The leather-lined top above a pair of cabinet doors to each side, applied with a husk swags and an oval cartouche, opening to reveal four drawers to each opposing side, flanked by lions' masked monopodiae supports, with further swagged husk frieze and panelling to the sides
29¾ in. 75.5 cm.) high; 72 in. (183 cm.) wide; 40½ in. (103 cm.) deep

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This desk directly copies the celebrated 'library table' supplied by Thomas Chippendale for Sir Rowland Winn at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire in 1767 (illustrated in C. Gilbert,The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, vol. II, pp. 240-241, pl. 440-441). Chippendale's model 'compleatly finishd in the most elegant taste' costing Sir Rowland the then princely sum of 72p 10s. A photograph of the Nostell Priory desk was included in Oliver Brackett's Thomas Chippendale: A Study of his Life, Work and Influence published in 1924 (plate XXXVI). This book, whose author was the Curator of Furniture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no doubt contributed to the enthusiasm to reproduce this design.