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A Regency gothic revival oak breakfront dressing table after a design by George Smith

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27 November 2019, 14:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

£2,500 - £3,500

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A Regency gothic revival oak breakfront dressing table after a design by George Smith

Circa 1810, surmounted by six spherical finials, the top comprising a central bay inset with two gilt-tooled leather inset slides opening to reveal six compartments, flanked by two raised end bays, with a central interlaced gothic blind fretwork facade below, comprising one dummy drawer above one drawer enclosing four pull-out cylindrical compartments encompassing a circular wash basin recess, flanked by two quatrefoil blind fretwork deep drawers, on six stiff-leaf capped spiral reeded tapering legs, 137cm wide x 57cm deep x 98cm high, (53 1/2in wide x 22in deep x 38 1/2in high)

Footnotes

The offered lot is virtually identical to a design for a dressing table produced by George Smith, dated 1807, which features as plate 74 in Smith's seminal publication Household Furniture (1808). It is also illustrated in the chapter entitled 'The Gothic Taste', M. Jourdain & revised by R. Fastnedge, Regency Furniture, 1795-1830, 1965, London, fig. 49, p. 32. In light of the aforementioned it seems probable that the present dressing table was actually executed by George Smith, although there is no documentation to prove this.

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