Sale 6265
London
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9 March 2000
Price realised
GBP 2,070
Estimate
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD Inlaid overall with ebonised lines, the scrolled gallery with floral patera, above a bowfront rectangular top with two frieze drawers and flanked by a pedestal to each side, one with two drawers, the other with a celaret drawer enclosing six lead-lined wells, each above a canted tapering door enclosing a shelf, on foliate bun feet 47¾ in. (121 cm.) high; 78 in (198 cm.) wide; 26¾ in. (68 cm.) deep
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The design for a similar sideboard, with stepped top and tapering pedestal base is illustrated in R. Ackerman's Repository of Arts, London, 1810, (P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture & Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, pl. 14).
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