Writing table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Ebonised timber, ivory, leather, glass
Measurements
107 x 107 x 55 cm
Place of origin
North Italian
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Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998120
Summary
An ebonized and ivory-inlaid bow-breakfront writing table, probably North Italian, circa 1880, the writing surface with leather skiver and a raised back of two compartments with sloping concave hinged covers fitted with divisions, either side of a beveled mirror plate beneath a swan-neck pediment. The kneehole beneath a long bow-front drawer, and flanked to either side by a pair of short drawers. Raised on four tapering square-section supports terminating in brass castors and joined by a curving 'X'-shaped stretcher topped by a footrest covered in fabric and with tassels. All-over decorated with ivory stringing, and with inlaid floral arabesques and scrolls elsewhere.
Provenance
Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950.