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A REGENCY PARTRIDGEWOOD, CALAMANDER AND ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
Lot 405

A REGENCY PARTRIDGEWOOD, CALAMANDER AND ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE

CIRCA 1810-20

Closed23 May 2012

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GBP 8,750

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A REGENCY PARTRIDGEWOOD, CALAMANDER AND ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
CIRCA 1810-20
The crossbanded rounded rectangular twin-flap top with holly stringing above two frieze drawers and opposing false drawers, on standard supports and downswept legs with brass caps and castors, labelled 'SOUTH DRAWING ROOM' and with indistinct label, stretcher and handles replaced
27¾ in. (70.5 cm.) high; 56¾ in. (145 cm.) wide open; 35 in. (89 cm.) wide closed; 25¾ in. (66 cm.) deep

Christie's, London, The Property of a Lady of Title, 21 April 1994, lot 128.

Specialist note

The largescale use of partridgewood in the present lot is most unusual. It was identified in J.S Prideaux's The Cabinet-Makers's Assistant, London, 1853 as 'chiefly used in small cabinets and general turnery,... walking sticks, umbrella and parasol handles', and where it appears on furniture of the late 18th and early 19th centuries it is generally employed as banding (see F.Lewis Hinckley, Directory of the Historic Cabinet Woods, New York, 1960, pp. 152 - 154).