Sale 12073
London
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23 September 2015
Price realised
GBP 11,875
Estimate
A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE CIRCA 1810 The top with inset gilt-tooled red leather and inlaid to the corners with anthemions above two part cedar-lined, frieze drawers, minor old restorations 28 ½ in. (72 cm.) high; 47 in. (120 cm.) wide; 23 ¾ in. (60 cm.) deep
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The striking end supports can be related to the design of the base of a table produced by the little known London cabinet maker George Simson, see C. Gilbert, Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, p. 429, fig. 862.
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