The moulded gilt-tooled leather-inset top with clasps on the angles, above three frieze drawers to the front and three simulated frieze drawers to the reverse, on cabriole legs headed by rocaille mounts and terminating in foliate sabots, stamped once 'I DUBOIS' and thrice 'JME', remounted
30¹⁄₂ in. (77 cm.) high; 46 in. (117 cm.) wide; 25¹⁄₂ in. (65 cm.) deep

Probably acquired by Benjamin Gaskell, MP, (d.1856) for Thornes House, Wakefield.
Thence by descent in the Milnes Gaskell family.

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