BY HOLLAND & SONS, CIRCA 1870

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A VICTORIAN WALNUT, FLORAL MARQUETRY AND PARCEL GILT CENTRE TABLE
BY HOLLAND & SONS, CIRCA 1870
The shaped oval top inset with leather-lined writing surface, with a frieze drawer to one side and simulated drawer to the reverse, on twin tapering stop-fluted supports and downswept feet on castors, stamped HOLLAND & SONS, the underside of the drawer inscribed in ink '185'
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 51½ in. (131 cm.) wide; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

By repute, supplied by Holland & Sons circa 1870 to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (d.1910) at Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London.

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Lot Essay

From the year 1860 Holland & Sons were employed in the furnishing of Marlborough House by Prince Edward, as part of a grand refurbishment scheme following the remodelling of the interior by the architect Sir James Pennethoen. Almost one hundred pages are devoted to the firms' work at Marlborough House amongst their Day Books preserved in the National Archive of Art and Design, at Blythe House, Olympia, London.

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