The rectangular top with reeded edge and fitted with a hinged lidded compartment with pen-slide and fitments for ink wells, above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer between rounded tablet blocks on turned and reeded tapering legs with brass caps and casters, the underside of top and drawer indistinctly signed in pencil H.... W....(?)
29 in. (74 cm.) high, 28 in. (71 cm.) wide, 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 September 1997, lot 145.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 14 October 2004, lot 261.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

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A sketch for this type of table appears in Gillows Estimate Sketch Book, dated 1810, which they called a 'chamber writing-table' (No. 344/144, p. 11, Westminster City Archives). Gillows supplied four tables of this pattern in 1811 to T.W. Egerton for Tatton Park, Cheshire (N. Goodison and J. Hardy, 'Gillows at Tatton Park, Cheshire', Furniture History, 1970, pp. 28, 30, 32 and 35, pl. 16B).