Details
The brass moulded rectangular top with rounded corners and central interlaced geometric pattern above six short drawers mounted with foliate drop handles and escutcheons within brass lined reserves, flanked by straight supports terminating in volutes, the sides inlaid with lozenges, on hoof feet
31 1/2 in. (80 cm.) high; 39 1/4 in. (101 cm.) wide; 22 1/2 in. (57 cm.) deep
Provenance
Gerald Tyrwhitt, Lord Berners (1883-1950), Faringdon House.
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Immortalised as Lord Merlin in Nancy Mitford's semi-fictional novel The Pursuit of Love, Lord Berners (1883-1950) was a composer, painter, diplomat, writer and celebrated eccentric. His Palladian villa in Oxfordshire, Faringdon House was in its heyday photographed by Cecil Beaton and played host to an array of artistic and society figures including the Mitfords, Stravinsky, Dali​ and Gertrude Stein. The house contained a suitably diverse collection of pictures and furniture inherited and acquired by Lord Berners over his lifetime.

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