Lot 309
WILLIAM IV OLIVE WOOD, EBONY AND INLAY WRITING TABLE, ATTRIBUTED TO TOWN AND EMANUEL
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Auction: Day One: 23 February 2022 | From 10:00
Description
the rectangular matchbook veneered top with a chamfered edge, outlined with scrolling foliate banding, over a pair of short frieze drawers with carved brackets, raised on pierced scrolling end supports and outswept legs ending in brass caps and castors
Dimensions
117cm wide, 74cm high, 65cm deep
Footnote
Note: Town & Emanuel, listed in directories as 'dealers in & Manufactureres of antique furniture, curiosities and pictures', occupied 103 New Bond Street from c.1830 until the sale of their 'Magnificent and Extensive Stock' by Christie's on 19 April 1849. They were inspired by the buhl revival, both manufacturing, restoring and dealing in French furniture and objects d'art. The firm's patrons included, besides Royalty, the Duke of Baccleuch, the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Braybrooke.1
1. Above note taken from Christopher Gilbert's 'Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840', published by the Furniture History Society and W. S. Maney & Son, 1996, p. 52