A GEORGE II MAHOGANY READING MUSIC-STAND

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY READING MUSIC-STAND
The hinged rectangular top with later removable book-stop on a ratcheted support and concealing a further pierced book-support on ratcheted support, the moulded sides with a pair of brass candle-stands on a ratcheted telescopic support and ring-turned and acanthus-carved baluster column, the base carved with ribbon-tied laurel, on cabriole legs carved with acanthus and pad feet, on brass castors, restorations to easel mechanisms
24½ in. (62 cm.) wide; 29 in. (73.5 cm.) high, closed; 19 in. (48.5 cm.) deep

拍品專文

Patterns from related 'Reading or Music Desks', were published in William Ince and John Mayhew's, The Universal System of Household Furniture, London, 1762 (pl. XXVI). A related 'desk' supplied in 1767 by Thomas Chippendale (d.1779) for Nostell Priory, Yorkshire is illustrated in J. Hardy, 'Sir Rowland Winn's Music desk', Furniture History, 1997, fig. 1.