Sale 6716
London, South Kensington
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5 July 2011
Price realised
GBP 5,000
Estimate
A REGENCY PLUM PUDDING MAHOGANY AND EBONY INLAID SOFA TABLE EARLY 19TH CENTURY The rounded rectangular twin-flap top above two frieze drawers and two false, later locks, one stamped 'V.R', on tapering twin pedestal supports with stepped sabre legs on castors 29½ in. (74 cm.) high; 61 in. (155 cm.) wide overall; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep
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A card table patented by Thomas and William Wilkinson, dated 1805, with a similar stepped shouldered leg, illustrated C. Gilbert,Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 472, fig. 958
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