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18th-Century and Early 19th-Century English Furniture, Objets d’Art, Glass, Clocks and Barometers

Ronald Phillips Ltd
26 Bruton Street
London W1J 6QL
United Kingdom

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A fine late 18th century Sheraton period rosewood writing table, the cross-banded rectangular gilt tooled green leather lined top above three short drawers on each side retaining their original elaborate swan-neck handles with their original gilding; on elegant square tapering legs terminating on brass castors.

English, circa 1790

Height: 30 ½ in; 77.5 cm
Height of Kneehole: 23 ¾ in; 60.5 cm
Width: 48 ¼ in; 122.5 cm
Depth: 35 ½ in; 90 cm

Provenance: Private collection, Washington DC

Literature: Christopher Claxton Stevens and Stewart Whittington, ‘18th Century Furniture; The Norman Adams Collection’, London, 1983, p. 132.

Circa: 1790