Sale 5698
London
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14 November 1996
Price realised
GBP 19,550
Estimate
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SILVER TABLE The shaped canted rectangular moulded top with later pierced fretwork gallery above a pierced fretwork frieze above a further tasseled frieze with pierced scrolling angle brackets on reeded and shaped legs joined by a later, pierced, X-shaped stretcher centred by an urn finial, on leather castors, restorations to the gallery and brackets, the top with two plugged holes and resupported to the underside 37½in. (95cm.) wide; 30in. (76cm.) high; 22in. (58cm.) deep
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