Sale 6490
London
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20 September 2001
Price realised
GBP 13,512
Estimate
AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARCHITECT'S TABLE The hinged rectangular top with rising book-stop, above a fitted mahogany-lined frieze drawer with green baize-lined hinged slide and two secret drawers, the drawer pulling out with the fronts of the front legs to reveal turned columns behind, the sides each with a candle-stand above a drawer, on square legs with block feet surrounding turned columns 33¼ in. (84.5 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide; 24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 22 April 1994, lot 62, (£7,130).
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