A REGENCY IVORY-INLAID KINGWOOD OPEN BOOKCASE

This sophisticated bookcase belongs to a small group of highly refined furniture of an almost Anglo-Indian character made in ivory on kingwood and undoubtedly executed in the same workshop. Its stylistic origins are difficult to determine but the decoration obviously relates to contemporary French-style brass-inlaid furniture - although it seems likely that the designers were also aware of antiquarian sensibilities, such as the suite of ebony and ivory furniture supplied to the Gothic Library at Stowe, probably to designs by Sir John Soane (F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p. 164).

A pair of card tables from this group and no doubt executed in the same workshop was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 9 April 1992, lot 104.