A Regency mahogany writing table in the manner of Thomas Chippendale the Younger circa 1810

Overall good condition; leather top is replaced; with approximately 3 ½ inch loss and some lifting to stringing of tabletop above left drawer; with some restored sections of applied moldings on legs and feet; and nicks and wear throughout consistent with age and use.
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Sir Richard Colt Hoare employed Thomas Chippendale the Younger at Stourhead from 1795-1820.  During that time, Chippendale supplied a number of pieces of furniture which used Egyptian Heads including '8 mahogany chairs with circular backs, broad sweep pannelld [sic] tops, with circle elbows, carved Egyptian heads, and fluted therm feet, the rails molded and carved, cane seat and brass socket castors, for Library £76' in 1802.  He also supplied a library table with similarly carved Egyptian heads for this same room in 1804, and another sumptuous library table with rounded ends which combined philosopher’s heads and Egyptian heads in 1805. For a full discussion on this commission, see Judith Goodsion, ‘Thomas Chippendale the Younger at Stourhead’, Furniture History, 2005, vol. XLI, pp. 57-116, figs. 29, 30, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39.