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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED AND INLAID-ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED AND INLAID-ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE

CIRCA 1810

Details
A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED AND INLAID-ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
CIRCA 1810
The rectangular top with re-entrant corners and curved ends with a demi-lune flap to the back edge with turret corners, the frieze fitted with a pair of drawers and raised on vasiform trestle supports and downswept legs
27 ½ in. (70 cm.) high, 52 ¼ in. (133 cm.) wide, 35 ¾ in. (91 cm.) deep
Provenance
Acquired from Stuart and Turner, London, September 1949.
Literature
D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, pp. 338-339, no. 373.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Shortly after we bought our house at 65th Street, we showed Cecil Turner a number of places where we needed pieces of furniture and asked him to assist us in finding them. He suggested that we purchase this sofa table, which he felt was very unusual in that it has a flap opening out on one side. We have placed it against the banister at the top of the second-floor landing, and when we have a number of people for cocktails, a cloth is put on top of it and it is used as a cocktail table.
D. R.
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