A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY ESCRITOIRE
Lot 14

A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY ESCRITOIRE

LATE 17TH CENTURY

Closed2 November 2011

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GBP 27,500

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A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY ESCRITOIRE
LATE 17TH CENTURY
Profusely inlaid throughout with foliate panels, the interior with an arrangement of drawers and pigeonholes around a central cupboard and open compartment below, with a long cushion-moulded drawer in the upper frieze and a ratchetted slope in the fall-front, the base with two short and two long drawers, on later bun feet, the sides with panels depicting Roman soldiers
65 in. (165 cm.) high; 43 in. (110 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep

Specialist note

A closely similar example is illustrated in Percy Macquoid, A History of English Furniture, Volume II, The Age of Walnut, 1660-1720, fig 53 and 54, also with Roman soldiers to the sides, ownership attributed to the Duke of Beaufort