Sale 1559
New York
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18 October 2005
Price realised
USD 48,000
Estimate
A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-EBONIZED LIBRARY TABLE CIRCA 1810 The rounded rectangular gilt-tooled tan leather-lined top above a pair of frieze drawers, with sham drawers to the reverse, over roundel-headed reeded cabriole trestle supports, joined by a reeded and spiral-twist turned stretcher, on reeded splayed legs ending in paw caps and casters, with yellow chalk number 7008/504 and partial printed label 65, pulls probably original 28½ in. (72 cm.) high, 59½ in. (151 cm.) wide, 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
with Hyde Park Antiques, New York, 1991.
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