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AN ANGLO-INDIAN IVORY-INLAID ROSEWOOD TABLE BUREAU ON STAND
Lot 123

AN ANGLO-INDIAN IVORY-INLAID ROSEWOOD TABLE BUREAU ON STAND

VIZAGAPATAM, LATE 18TH CENTURY

Fermé15 November 2017

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GBP 3,250

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AN ANGLO-INDIAN IVORY-INLAID ROSEWOOD TABLE BUREAU ON STAND
VIZAGAPATAM, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The hinged writing slope depicting a tree and with a hinged stationery compartment behind, with broad foliate borders throughout, on a stand with shaped aprons and square chamfered legs, with 'W.& A. Chapman, Taunton' depository label, stamped 'J G YOUNG'
32 ¾ in. (83 cm.) high; 21 ¾ in. (56 cm.) wide; 16 in. (41 cm.) deep

J. G. Young (according to label).

Note du spécialiste

Table bureaus were particularly popular in the eighteenth century, and were eventually copied in the East for the Western market, most notably in rich ivory-inlay, as in the present lot. However this form with its 'gothick' stand appears to be less commonplace. A similar table bureau, in the collection of Sir Edward Knatchbull of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent was mounted on a 'very neat new stand' by Thomas Chippendale in 1767 (see P. K. Thornton, 'The Furnishing of Mersham le Hatch I & II', Apollo, April 1970, pp. 266-77, and June 1970, pp. 440-51 reference in C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, p. 221). The Mersham-le-Hatch example is illustrated in A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, 2001, fig. 86.