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A GEORGE III BLUE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT PEDESTAL DESK After a design by Thomas Chippen...

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A GEORGE III BLUE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT PEDESTAL DESK    After a design by Thomas Chippen...
A GEORGE III BLUE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT PEDESTAL DESK

After a design by Thomas Chippendale, circa 1765 The serpentine gilt-tooled red leather-lined top with molded edge, above a frieze drawer and kneehole, flanked by four graduated drawers to each pedestal, framed by cluster pilasters with acanthus capitals, reversing to sham drawers, each side fitted with leather -lined slide above ribbon-tied oak and acorn garlands centered by a lion mask, on an ebonized plinth with molded upper edge 30 X 61 X 293/4 IN. (76 X 155 X 75.5 CM)

$60,000-80,000

Provenance Acquired by Ailsa Bruce mellon from Sullivan & Cromwell, New York, bequeathed to The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 70.9.233 (sold Christie's New York, January 28, 1998, lot 611).