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A WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE
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A WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE

CIRCA 1830, IN THE PORTUGUESE TASTE

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A WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE
CIRCA 1830, IN THE PORTUGUESE TASTE
The rectangular top with a gadrooned edge containing a frieze drawer on spirally turned legs joined by similar 'H' stretchers, originally with inset castors
28 in. (71 cm.) high; 59 in. (150 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

This 'Portuguese' table is designed in the historical or 'antiquarian' taste promoted by Wardour Street dealers. Amongst the principal architects promoting a 'revived domestic gothic' or antiquarian furnishings was Anthony Salvin (d.1881), who fused Tudor-Elizabethan with Jacobean and Stuart elements in furniture designed in the late 1820s for Mamhead, Devon. The library designed for John, Earl of Erne by Edward Blore at Crom Castle, Ireland, in the mid-1840's, combines Solomonic columns with applied shaped panels in a very similar style (H. Montgomery Massingberd and C.S. Sykes, Great Houses of Ireland, London, 1999, pp. 62-3).

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