A Regency mahogany twin-pedestal desk, early 19th century, in the manner of Thomas Hope
with horizontal bands of ebonised embossed floral mouldings, the leather-lined top above a drawer enclosing a leather-lined writing slope/slide concealing quadrant swinging compartments within pylon shaped pedestals with ebonised palmette carved antefixae fitted with cupboards and opposing sides with five small drawers enclosed by doors, the lower sections with opposed sets of three ebony strung drawers on a moulded incurved plinth
152cm. high, 187cm. wide, 91cm. deep; 4ft. 11¾in., 6ft. 1½in., 3ft.
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Saleroom Notice
With H. Blairman & Sons Ltd;
Possibly acquired by Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 8th Bt., later 1st Lord Hesketh (1881-1944) or Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh DL (1916-1955);
thence by descent.
M. Jourdain and F. Rose,
English Furniture: The Georgian Period 1750-1830, London, 1953, figs. 20 (detail) and 105;
C. Musgrave,
Regency Furniture: 1800 to 1830, London, 1961, pl. 19.
RELATED LITERATURE:
T. Hope, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl. XI, fig. 1