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A Regency rosewood writing table with bowed ends, on boldly carved, lion-headed monopodia scrolled legs and paw feet. Probably supplied to Joshua Vanneck, 2nd Baron Huntingfield for Heveningham Hall, Suffolk, designed by James Wyatt,... |
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Pictured 1925 in situ in the library The English Country House, M. Hall, London, 1994, p. 135 (1925 photograph of the table in situ in the library). A.E. Henson's 1925 photograph of the James Wyatt's Library at Heveningham is one of the most famous interior photographs of that period and of startling clarity. In the centre of the room stands this superb Regency writing table, one of only two tables allowed to remain in the photographer's search for sparse elegance. Additional Literature: P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. III, p. 258, fig. 43. C. Hussey, English Country Houses: Mid-Georgian, London 1956, p. 174, fig. 350.... |
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