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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONISED BUREAUX-PLATS
CIRCA 1880
Each with replaced inset tooled red-leather panel to the shaped top with premiere and contre-partie inlaid border above a single frieze drawer on cabriole legs, both with retail label 'From/ Messrs. DRUCE & CO.,/.../68, 69, and 58, Baker Street,/PORTMAN SQUARE', one inscribed '12965', minor variations
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 49 in. (124.5 cm.) wide; 28.1/4 in. (71.5 cm.) deep and similar
Provenance
Proabaly Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of
Londonderry (1852-1915) or Theresa Susey Helen, Marchioness of
Londonderry (1856-1919) and by descent.
Literature
Wynyard Park inventory, 1886, vol. ii, p. 308, the drawing room, ‘ 4ft. ebony & buhl inlaid Louis Sixteenth writing table…richly mounted ormolu top lined Morocco’ and ‘ the companion table mounted en suite’.
Wynyard Park inventory, 1949, p. 45, Large Dining Room, ‘A pair of ebonized writing tables mounted with ormolu’.
Wynyard Park inventory, 1956, p. 1, drawing room.
One: Wynyard Park inventory, 1965, vol. i, p. 16, dining room.

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