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Lot 128TP
An early Victorian Sevres style porcelain and ormolu mounted tulipwood writing table or small bureau plat Circa 1840, in the French taste, probably originally retailed by Edward Holmes Baldock
1 July 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,584 inc. premium
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An early Victorian Sevres style porcelain and ormolu mounted tulipwood writing table or small bureau plat
Circa 1840, in the French taste, probably originally retailed by Edward Holmes Baldock
The overhanging rectangular gilt tooled leather inset top with projecting eared angles, mounted with a bead-and-lappet moulded edge surmounted by a pierced oval three quarter gallery with a tasselled drapery garlanded front, the leather within crossbanded elongated c-scroll surrounds, above a frieze mounted with ten shaped rectangular floral painted porcelain plaques interspersed and centred by six circular exotic bird painted plaques, each porcelain plaque mounted within a rosette and foliate pattern surround, the frieze incorporating one long mahogany lined drawer, on keeled triform cabriole legs terminating in lappet wrapped scrolled acanthus sabots, with the minimal remnants of a 19th century printed paper label to the underside, 94cm wide x 58cm deep x 77.5cm high, (37in wide x 22 1/2in deep x 30 1/2in high)
The overhanging rectangular gilt tooled leather inset top with projecting eared angles, mounted with a bead-and-lappet moulded edge surmounted by a pierced oval three quarter gallery with a tasselled drapery garlanded front, the leather within crossbanded elongated c-scroll surrounds, above a frieze mounted with ten shaped rectangular floral painted porcelain plaques interspersed and centred by six circular exotic bird painted plaques, each porcelain plaque mounted within a rosette and foliate pattern surround, the frieze incorporating one long mahogany lined drawer, on keeled triform cabriole legs terminating in lappet wrapped scrolled acanthus sabots, with the minimal remnants of a 19th century printed paper label to the underside, 94cm wide x 58cm deep x 77.5cm high, (37in wide x 22 1/2in deep x 30 1/2in high)
Footnotes
An early Victorian writing table, which is dated circa 1845, of typical Louis XV style and with a similar gallery, as well as incorporating comparable porcelain mounts, to the offered lot is illustrated in C. Payne, European Furniture of the 19th Century, 2013, Woodbridge, p. 288. This closely comparable table was evidently originally retailed by Edward Holmes Baldock due to the presence of Baldock's distinctive 'EHB' marque au fer to its underside.
Two further related porcelain mounted examples include a bureau plat of circa 1835 retailed by Baldock, and likewise branded with his initials, as on the aforementioned table. This appears in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840, 1996, Leeds, fig. 44, p. 77. And another smaller model of Louis XV style table, which is labelled for Town and Emanuel and dated 1835, features in the same book, Ibid, fig.'s 903 & 904, p. 450.
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