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The eared rectangular top inset with later brown leather-lined writing-surface above drawers to each side comprising three small central drawers, one fitted, flanked by two pairs of medium-sized drawers, the rounded angles flanked by plain sides and raised on pedestals, each with three drawers flanking a kneehole on each side, on a moulded plinth base, the metalwork possibly original, on castors
3012 in. (77.5 cm.) high; 62 in. (157.5 cm.) wide; 39 in. (99 cm.) deep
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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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