Live Auction 5089Italian Banks of Distinction
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY LIBRARY DESK
Lot 126

A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY LIBRARY DESK

CIRCA 1820

Closed13 November 2007

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GBP 17,300

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY LIBRARY DESK
CIRCA 1820
The rectangular leather-lined top with three frieze drawers to each side, on a rectangular pedestal, one side with six graduated drawers, the other side with false drawers around a kneehole and with tapering turned and reeded columns to each corner, the locks stamped GR with a crown
31½in. (79cm.) high; 59in. (150cm.) wide; 44in. (112cm.) deep

Specialist note

Designed in robust Grecian fashion with plinth-supported and reed-wrapped pillars, the library-table resembles an aggrandised George IV 'Davenport' desk, as it incorporates a drawer-chest, whose façade presents a recess flanked by trompel'oeil nest of 'dressing-table' drawers.