A GEORGE III MAHOGANY KIDNEY-SHAPED DRESSING-TABLE

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY KIDNEY-SHAPED DRESSING-TABLE
Inlaid overall with boxwood lines, with kidney-shaped top with three- quarter gallery and gilt-embossed brown leather-lined writing-surface above a mahogany-lined fitted frieze drawer with further leather-lined writing-slope and flanked to each side by further mahogany-lined drawers, on square tapering legs with brass caps and castors with Norman Adams label
32¼ in. (82 cm.) high; 46½ in. (118 cm.) wide; 27 in. (67 cm.) deep

Provenance

Bought from Norman Adams, at the Antique Dealers' Fair, Grosvenor House, 23 June 1982.

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

This form of crescent-scrolled table on hermed feet was adopted in 1772 for a dressing-table supplied by Thomas Chippendale (d. 1779) for Burton Constable, Yorkshire (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, fig. 427). It also features on a writing-table illustrated in the 1787 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster (L. Boynton, ed,. Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 39).

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