Regency Mahogany Double-Sided Library Table or Desk

Regency Mahogany Double-Sided Library Table or DeskAn elegant English early 19th century Regency period partners desk or library table in mahogany, in the manner of Gillows of Lancaster and London. Circa 1820. Why we like it Best reeded legs that we have ever seen on a regency piece, elegant and restrained. Understated and masculine, this versatile cetre table is superbly proportioned to make a functional library table or spacious desk. With eight frieze drawers and four faux drawers, on turned and

modelled perched on a stump adorned with lingzhi fungus

in red walnut

1836) for Peper Harow

including a set of six sold Christie's

A very fine Pair of George III Mahogany Hall Chairs

The English satirist Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) wrote in his Directions to Servants (1729) about "small chests and trunks with lock and key

In 1815 Bullock was famed as being amongst London's 'most tasteful and ingenious artists'

with palm-flowered acanthus and stand on panelled plinths

lots 50-51 and 5 December 1991

A pair of cream and blue-japanned armchairs of the same pattern was sold anonymously Christie’s

a well-known bibliophile and book-collector

with shaped apron carved with flowers and scrolls