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Lot 823
A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, KINGWOOD AND ROSEWOOD WRITING TABLE
POSSIBLY BY JOHN COBB, CIRCA 1775
Closed10 May 2018
Price Realised
USD 5,000
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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, KINGWOOD AND ROSEWOOD WRITING TABLE
POSSIBLY BY JOHN COBB, CIRCA 1775
The three-quarter galleried serpentine top with a pull-up screen covered in green damask, above a pull-out gilt-tooled green leather slide, a drawer to one side, on slender cabriole legs, with inventory label inscribed D.R. 52.1388
29 ¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high, 21 ¾ in. (55 cm.) wide, 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep
POSSIBLY BY JOHN COBB, CIRCA 1775
The three-quarter galleried serpentine top with a pull-up screen covered in green damask, above a pull-out gilt-tooled green leather slide, a drawer to one side, on slender cabriole legs, with inventory label inscribed D.R. 52.1388
29 ¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high, 21 ¾ in. (55 cm.) wide, 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep
A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, KINGWOOD AND ROSEWOOD WRITING TABLE
POSSIBLY BY JOHN COBB, CIRCA 1775
The three-quarter galleried serpentine top with a pull-up screen covered in green damask, above a pull-out gilt-tooled green leather slide, a drawer to one side, on slender cabriole legs, with inventory label inscribed D.R. 52.1388
29 ¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high, 21 ¾ in. (55 cm.) wide, 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep
POSSIBLY BY JOHN COBB, CIRCA 1775
The three-quarter galleried serpentine top with a pull-up screen covered in green damask, above a pull-out gilt-tooled green leather slide, a drawer to one side, on slender cabriole legs, with inventory label inscribed D.R. 52.1388
29 ¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high, 21 ¾ in. (55 cm.) wide, 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep
Acquired from Stuart and Turner, London, October 1950.
D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 343, no. 381.
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