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ANTIQUE #SA1166326
william iv writing table with carved giltwood and ivory paintwork - CATEGORY: ANTIQUE TABLES - DATED 19TH CENTURY
 

William IV Writing Table With Carved Giltwood And IVory Paintwork

£19,500    $26,632    €22,446
A rare William IV period kidney shaped writing table with carved giltwood decoration and white paintwork: the writing table''s leathered top crossbanded in satinwood and with a carved gadrooned edge above a frieze composed of scrolling acanthus leaves on an ivory ground; raised on handsome, scrolling end supports united by a fluted and acanthus carved stretcher. The writing table has two frieze drawers at opposing ends of the frieze.
 
Circa 1835
 
The writing table is in excellent condition and retains the majority of its original white paintwork and gilding
 
Provenance
 
The writing table''s sophisticated design suggests that it was made by one of the leading cabinet-makers of early Nineteenth Century London. The carved giltwood decoration on an ivory ground is typical of pieces designed in the highly fashionable Italianate manner and is similar to pieces supplied by Morant to the Duke of Sutherland for Stafford House, St. James''s.
 
George Morant''s firm supplied various memb...
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