A VICTORIAN WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DRESSING-TABLE

THE TILES MINTON, CIRCA 1860

Details

A VICTORIAN WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DRESSING-TABLE
The tiles Minton, circa 1860
Decorated overall to simulate bamboo, with a superstructure inset with tiles depicting water foul, herons, ducks and swans, flanked by panels painted with leaf-sprays, above a rounded rectangular white and grey-veined marble top, above five short drawers surrounding a kneehole, on ring-turned tapering legs and ceramic castors, the castors stamped 'COPE & COLLISON PATENT'
41¾ in. (106 cm.) high; 39¾ in. (101 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (60 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Lord Desborough, Panshanger, Hertfordshire, sold with the following lot Humber and Flynn, London, July 1953, lot 391 (37 guineas).
The Hawkins Family, Everden Hall, near Daventry.

Sale room notice

The measurements for this lot are incorrect, the correct measurements are those on lot 125.

Lot Essay

Some of the contents of Panshanger, such as pictures and drawings were sold as part of the Cowper Collection by Lady Desborough in these Rooms, 16 October, 1953. A sale of 'valuable Building Materials' from Panshanger was sold by Messrs. R.C. Knight & Sons, Norwich, 12, 13, 14 October 1954.

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