A VICTORIAN BURR-WALNUT AND TULIPWOOD-BANDED KIDNEY-SHAPED D...

Lot 70
19.01.2021 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 70 | A VICTORIAN BURR-WALNUT AND TULIPWOOD-BANDED KIDNEY-SHAPED D...
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£ 15 000 – 25 000
A VICTORIAN BURR-WALNUT AND TULIPWOOD-BANDED KIDNEY-SHAPED DESK

BY GILLOWS, DATED FEBRUARY 1859, THE CRAFTSMAN JOHN BARROW

The crossbanded top inset with gilt-tooled green leather, above a frieze drawer flanked by two banks of five graduated drawers with locking stiles, the reverse of the kneehole with two adjustable shelves, stamped GILLOW, the locks struck J.T. NEEDS/ 100 NEW BOND ST and LATE J. BRAMAH / 124 PICCADILLY beneath a crown, on a plinth base with recessed castors, the frieze drawer signed in pencil John Barrow / Febry 1859 and with label indistinctly inscribed '...after consideration ...this writing table...daughter...Her Godfather gave it to... W. Sterling Crawford (?) there are other...for... . I give to her this & she is also my eldest child (?)'

29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 51 5/8 in. (131 cm.) wide; 27 ½ in. (70 cm.) deep

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