This desk is conceived in the George II romantic 'Gothic' style, such as the connoisseur Horace Walpole promoted from the 1740s at Strawberry Hill, his Thames-side villa in Richmond. Its top, displaying cluster-columned tablet corners, corresponds to the 'Library Table' pattern issued in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, pl. LV. As Chippendale commented of such desks: 'They frequently stand in the middle of a room, which requires both sides to be made useful'. Another desk of the same form was sold 50 Years of Collecting: Decorative Arts of Georgian England; Christie's, London, 14 May 2003, lot 169 (£111,650).
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Overall in good condition. There are some marks, scratches, small losses and repairs as to be expected with age and use. There are some minor repairs in areas overall, as one might expect with age. Replaced leather top and in very good useable condition, only a few minor scuffs. Two vertical shrinkage cracks to each end and some shrinkage to the drawer linings which are in beech. As stated in the cataloguing, the metalwork is apparently original.
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拍品 179拍卖编号 19560
LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, RELATED TO A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALEA GEORGE III MAHOGANY PARTNER'S DESK 估价: GBP 30,000 - 40,000