Sale 6077
London
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11 February 1999
Price realised
GBP 4,370
Estimate
A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT, ELM AND SEAWEED-MARQUETRY CHEST Banded to the front with foliage marquetry, the moulded rectangular top inlaid with a central seaweed marquetry oval and feather-banded, above two short and three long graduated drawers with conforming marquetry panels, the lower two drawers also with birds, the sides each with a conforming shaped panel, on later bracket feet, restorations, partially reconstructed in the late 19th early 20th Century, presumably when the top was largely reveneered around the seaweed marquetry panel 34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 37 in. (94.5 cm.) wide; 23 in. (59 cm.) deep
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