Writing table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1820
Materials
Burr yew, ebony, mahogany, beech, cedar, brass and leather
Measurements
74.0 x 122.0 x 82.0 cm
Place of origin
England
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Saltram, Devon
NT 871303
Summary
A burr yew-veneered writing table, English, circa 1820. The top inset with gilt-tooled green leather, and with re-entrant front corners. One long frieze fitted with three ebony-cockbeaded short drawers; the short end friezes both imitating drawers, with ebony cockbeading and handles. Raised on a pair of end supports formed as lyres with brass strings; each support on two rectangular-section outswept legs fitted with brass caps and castors. The supports joined by a ring-turned stretcher of opposing balusters. Decorated throughout with ebony lines.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1924 and accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley.