R8,000 - R10,000
R9,000
A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY WRITING TABLE
LOCATION: CAPE TOWN
The rectangular top inset with a gilt-tooled leather writing surface, fitted with two frieze drawers to either side and a dummy drawer to each end, on ring-turned tapering legs terminating in brass caps and castors, one drawer bearing a label Godwin, Upholsterer, Cabinet Maker, Auctioneer and Appraiser, Piazza, Winchester
74,5cm high, 152,5cm wide, 107cm deep
Thomas Godwin is recorded as being active between 1832 and 1839 and had left the Piazza address by 1830. The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Maney, 1986
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