EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD AND SYCAMORE-INLAID SOFA TABLE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rounded rectangular top with drop-leaves above two mahogany-lined frieze drawers and opposing false drawers on standard end supports joined by a turned stretcher and with ormolu rosette-mounted sabre legs with brass caps and castors, the underside with handwritten label 'Lady Clarke's/BRoom/1st bedroom floor'
28 in. (72 cm.) high; 58 ½ in. (149 cm.) wide; 28 in. (72 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from H. Blairman and Sons., London, in the 1950s.

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Lot Essay

The turned stretcher and sabre legs with distinctive rounded appendages corresponds to furniture associated with Louis le Gaigneur, cabinet-maker and `Buhl manufacturer' who was listed at 19 Queen Street, Edgware Road in 1815-1816. One of a few firms who revived brass-inlaid patterns reminiscent of the ancien regime, Le Gaigneur enjoyed the patronage of the Prince of Wales, later George IV for whom he supplied two library tables now at Windsor Castle. A related library table is illustrated in C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, Eighteenth Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, pp.170-171. Another library table with the same base and distinctive lozenge and anthemion mounts was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 7 July 2000, lot 100, £18,900 inc' prem'.

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