A GOTHIC OAK LIBRARY TABLE

Lot 558
23.10.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 820122
Lot 558 | A GOTHIC OAK LIBRARY TABLE
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$ 10 000 – 20 000
A GOTHIC OAK LIBRARY TABLE

19TH CENTURY AND LATER, AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

The leather-lined eared rectangular top above a paneled frieze carved with gothic tracery with eight drawers and four false drawers, on four pedestals each carved to two sides with gothic roundels and foliage to the corners, two pedestals enclosing three graduated drawers with one shelf, each side with a foliate-carved kneehole recess with replaced arches, the locks in the drawers later stamped GR Patent, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label, previously white-painted, with subsequent restorations and replacements

31 1/2 in. (80 cm.) high, 80 in. (203.2 cm.) wide, 69 in. (175.3 cm.) deep





Provenance

Acquired from Carlton Hobbs, London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1992.



Literature

‌Carlton Hobbs, Catalogue No. 3, London, 1992.

‌C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, London, 1998, vol. III, p. 730, fig. 426.





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