Lot 61
The three quarter pierced gallery top above the tooled leather mounted sloping top, flanked by narrow drawers to the sides above the front tambour shutters enclosing nine small drawers bordered with purpleheart, embellished all round with trellis sycamore parquetry and boxwood stringing framed by ormolu beading, on tapering legs headed by foliate ormolu mounts, joined by two open galleried platform shelves with figured central olivewood oval inlay, ending in ormolu feet, the interior stencilled 103, 77 width x 54.5 depth x 133cm height
Two keys
Estimate $25,000 - $35,000
Mostly in good order, old split to lower shelf stabilised with old dovetail join underneath, the leather to fall front a later replacement accurate in colour etc.
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1980 Christie's Sale Catalogue of Contents of Reddish House, Broad Chalke, the former home of Sir Cecil Beaton C.B.E. Lot 54 page 35
Purchased: Partridge Fine Arts, London, ref. 20486
EVENING AUCTION: The Decorative Arts Collection of James Fairfax AC
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8201
6:30pm - 31 August 2017
The National Art School, Sydney
VIEWING
Viewing Location
Leonard Joel, 39 Queen Street, Woollahra NSW 2010
Tuesday 29 & Wednesday 30 August, 11am-6pm
Thursday 31 August, by appointment only
CONTACT
Tim Nicol
timothy.nicol@leonardjoel.com.au
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