Research
Of burr elm. The rectangular top with rounded corners, above a panelled frieze set to the front with two drawers set with shaped handles with nulled decoration, the frieze fully dummied to the reverse, the whole raised on two downswept trestle ends topped by foliate scrolls with panelled sides fluted to the front and reverse and set with palmette decoration, above spreading scrolling fan decoration, each end raised on a plinth upon two scrolling feet raised on brass castors.
Provenance:
Hotspur Ltd., Lowndes Street, London, 1974
A closely related table previously sold by Norman Adams Ltd., firmly attributed to the firm of Banting, France and Co., indicates that the present piece is a product of the same workshop.
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