Description
A mid Victorian calamander and gilt brass kneehole writing desk attributed to Wright and Mansfield, the raised back with a pierced 3/4 gallery on turned fluted column supports, with a trellis back to a green and gilt tooled leather surface, the panelled sides with pull-out slides, above three frieze drawers and three drawers to each pedestal all with foliate cast handles, on turned legs and brass castors, 36.5in (93cm) h, 53.75in (136.2cm) w, 22in (56cm) h. Crack to right side, some moulding lifting.¦Wright and Mansfield were one of the leading furniture makers, retailers and interior decorators between 1860 and 1886. They exhibited at the International Exhibition in 1862. They are famous for their Adam revival interiors at Guisachan, Inverness and the Louis XVI style rooms at Brook House, London. The attribution of Wright & Mansfield for this present lot is influenced by an almost identical desk in satinwood sold Christie's South Kensington, London 9th June 2004 for £15,535 (including buyer's premium). The centre drawer was stamped 'Wright and Mansfield, 104 New Bond Street'.¦