A REGENCY REVIVAL SIMULATED-CALAMANDER, CREAM AND GOLD-PAINTED PEDESTAL DESK
Lot 65 JULIANS PARK, HERTFORDSHIRE

A REGENCY REVIVAL SIMULATED-CALAMANDER, CREAM AND GOLD-PAINTED PEDESTAL DESK

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed8 June 2021

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GBP 4,000

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A REGENCY REVIVAL SIMULATED-CALAMANDER, CREAM AND GOLD-PAINTED PEDESTAL DESK
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The gilt-tooled leather top above three frieze drawers and two cupboard doors flanked by Egyptian figures, the right-hand cupboard enclosing further drawers, the left an open shelf, painted en grisaille overall with anthemion-scrolls and the cupboard doors with classical figures, each side with brass lion's-mask handle, the underside of the top with label for James Bourlet & Sons; together with a similarly-decorated waste paper basket
The desk: 31 in. (79 cm.) high; 55 in. (140 cm.) wide; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep

Acquired by Mrs Audrey Field (née James, later Mrs. Pleydell-Bouverie) by 1934 (photographed in the below publication on her carpet).