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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY PARTNERS' DESK
Lot 378

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY PARTNERS' DESK

BY JAMES GARDNER, CIRCA 1800

Closed17 March 2011

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GBP 49,250

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY PARTNERS' DESK
BY JAMES GARDNER, CIRCA 1800
The rectangular gilt-tooled black leather-lined top with three cedar-lined drawers to each side, the pedestals each with three graduated drawers and opposing panelled and satinwood crossbanded doors enclosing shelves, on castors, labelled 'JAMES GARDNER CABINET MAKER EASTGATE STREET ROW CHESTER ...', the metalwork replaced, one cupboard originally fitted with vertical divisions
32½ in. (83 cm.) high; 61½ in. (156 cm.); 39½ in. (100 cm.) deep

Specialist note

James Gardner, cabinet-maker and auctioneer (d.1808) is listed at Eastgate Street, Chester, in 1793-95, and at Talbot Row in 1997 (see G. Beard and C. Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660 - 1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 330).