A REGENCY MAHOGANY WRITING TABLE EARLY 19TH CENTURY inlaid with ebonised stringing, the top inset with a leather writing surface flanked by secret pull out pen drawers, the back with hinged compartments with pierced brass galleries above a pair of frieze drawers, the sides with pull-out slides on trestle end supports decorated with brass volutes, on brass castors 82.5cm high, 106.2cm wide, 59cm deep Provenance Purchased from the Estate of Capt. T.C. Meyrick, Norton, near Chichester in 2014.

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