Live Auction 1187A Life's Devotion: The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot
A PAIR OF GEORGE III INDIAN ROSEWOOD CROSSBANDED SATINWOOD FIRE-SCREEN WRITING TABLES
Lot 316

A PAIR OF GEORGE III INDIAN ROSEWOOD CROSSBANDED SATINWOOD FIRE-SCREEN WRITING TABLES

CIRCA 1780

Closed20 November 2013

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GBP 2,750

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III INDIAN ROSEWOOD CROSSBANDED SATINWOOD FIRE-SCREEN WRITING TABLES
CIRCA 1780
Each with retractable silk-lined screen, inset gilt-tooled writing surface and fitted frieze drawer on square tapering legs
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high (not extended); 18 in. (45 cm.) wide; 12¼ in. (31 cm.) deep

Specialist note

These tables are based on a design for a 'screen' table published in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book of 1793, pl. 43. According to Sheraton, 'this table is intended for a lady to write or work at near the fire; the screen part behind securing her face from its injuries.'