A FINE AND RARE REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY THREE-TIER DUMBWAITER Circa 1810

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

bidding is closed

Description

height 4 ft 4 in.; width 22 3/4 in.; depth 20 in.
132.1 cm; 57.8 cm; 50.8 cm

each graduated tier with flaps and fitted with a drawer at each end, the lower tier fitted with cut-out bottle slides and rotating bottle supports, all on lyre-form supports, the base with Greek-key inlay, raised on stepped downswept legs ending in brass hairy paw casters; the gilt-metal pulls stamped with an indistinct registration number.

Provenance

Sold, Sotheby's, London, November 19, 1993, lot 154

Literature

M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1790 – 1830, London, 1965, rev. ed., p. 87, fig. 209