A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BOOKSTAND

This hinge-topped table, with vase-baluster pillar and tripod feet, was described in the mid-18th Century as a 'Reading and Music Desk' (Ince and Mayhew, Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762). A related table or 'reading desk' on 'pillar and Claw' was invoiced in 1769 by Thomas Chippendale (d. 1779), when supplied for Nostell Priory, Yorkshire (see J. Hardy, 'Sir Rowland Winn's Music Desk', Furniture History, 1997, pp. 134-5, fig. 1).