Lot 150
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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD WORK-TABLE, the bow-ended rectangular top with a central sliding panel enclosing a divided interior with green leather-lined writing-surface to the reverse, flanked by a pair of hinged compartments, the plain frieze inlaid with boxwood lines above a pleated ivory silk sliding-well with blue paper-lined interior between stiff leaf-headed scrolled end-supports, the stepped rectangular platform and central foliate box upon splayed legs with brass claw feet and castors

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD WORK-TABLE, the bow-ended rectangular top with a central sliding panel enclosing a divided interior with green leather-lined writing-surface to the reverse, flanked by a pair of hinged compartments, the plain frieze inlaid with boxwood lines above a pleated ivory silk sliding-well with blue paper-lined interior between stiff leaf-headed scrolled end-supports, the stepped rectangular platform and central foliate box upon splayed legs with brass claw feet and castors
32in. (81.5cm.) wide; 29in. (74cm.) high; 18in. (46cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This work-table, with its plinth-supported and inverted lyre-shaped trestle-ends, is designed in the early 19th century 'antique' manner and is embellished with French-style ormolu mounts. A work-table of the same pattern, but incorporating a games-board and fitted wih a fretted gallery, is illustrated in M.Jourdain and R.Fastnedge, Regency Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1965, p.71, fig. 153.
A related brass-inlaid table is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (no. W.60-1931)

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