Sale 6077
London
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11 February 1999
Price realised
GBP 7,475
Estimate
AN IRISH REGENCY MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLE Possibly Cork The rectangular top with three-quarter solid gallery, the reverse with rope moulding with shaped sides, above a heavily-gadrooned edge and convex-moulded frieze, above a further rope-twist moulding, on ring- turned and spirally-reeded legs, with lion-paw feet, one corner of the top rounded, the other squared, probably originally made to fit into a recess 44 in. (113.5 cm.) high, including gallery; 101 in. (257 cm.) wide; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep
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