Live Auction 2023Christie's Interiors
AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY KNEEHOLE DESK OR DRESSING TABLE
Lot 248

AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY KNEEHOLE DESK OR DRESSING TABLE

CIRCA 1760

Closed20 September 2011

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AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY KNEEHOLE DESK OR DRESSING TABLE
CIRCA 1760
The hinged top enclosing a fitted interior with a hinged ratcheted green baize writing surface with another compartment beneath, with a dummy drawer above nine drawers about the kneehole and a further three recessed on shaped bracket feet
33¾ in. (86.5 cm.) high; 40 in. (101.5 cm.) wide; 23¼ in. (59 cm.) deep

Almost certainly supplied to Thomas Taylor, 1st Lord Headfort and later 1st Earl of Bective in the mid-eighteenth century. Thence by descent at Headfort House, Co. Meath, Ireland, until offered Sotheby's, London, 22 November 2006, lot 174 (one of two similar desks.)