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A GEORGE III LACQUERED-GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, AMARANTH AND TULIPWOOD PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT

Lot 40
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 50 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1250844
Lot 40 | A GEORGE III LACQUERED-GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, AMARANTH AND TULIPWOOD PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000
A GEORGE III LACQUERED-GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, AMARANTH AND TULIPWOOD PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT
PROBABLY BY AN EMIGRE CRAFTSMAN IN THE MANNER OF PHILIPPE-CLAUDE MONTIGNY, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The gilt-brass banded rectangular top inset with a gilt-tooled blue leather writing surface, above a panelled frieze inlaid with Greek-key motif with two frieze drawers centred by masks headed by acanthus flanked by rosettes and opposing false drawers, with lateral writing slides, the lower border with a ribbon-twist mount, the brass reeded incut square tapering legs headed by laurel swags with square sabots terminating in castors, with a paper label to the pine panelling to underside inscribed in ink ‘Brynkinalt RM’
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 48 in. (122 cm.) wide; 24 ¾ in. (63 cm.) deep




Provenance

Possibly supplied to Arthur Hill-Trevor, 2nd Viscount Dungannon (1763-1837) or acquired by Arthur Hill-Trevor, 3rd Viscount Dungannon (1798 – 1862) for 3 Grafton Street, London;
thence by descent at Brynkinalt Hall, Denbighshire until sold Sotheby’s, London, 19 January 2017, lot 382, where acquired by present owner.
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