CIRCA 1830

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A RESTAURATION MAHOGANY ARCHITECT'S TABLE
CIRCA 1830
The leather-lined double ratcheted top with removable book-rest above two end slides and a single fitted frieze drawer with internal leather-lined slide and pen-tray with brass inkwell and pounce-pot, on square tapering legs, the secondary ratchet mechanism operated by a knob to the centre of the frieze, with later import stamps 'MADE IN FRANCE' and with various blue crayon and pencil marking to the underside
29 3/4 in. (76 cm.) high; 34 3/4 in. (88 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53 cm.) deep

Literature

E. Lambert, ‘English Manners, Robin and Rupert Hambro’s Country House in the Heart of London’, Architectural Digest, March 1995, p. 127.

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