A Victorian mahogany library table circa 1880, by Wright & Mansfield

in George II manner, the rectangular red tooled leather inset top of arc-en arbelette form, above three drawers, with dummies to the reverse, all with blind fret carving, on cabriole legs with ball and claw feet, stamped WRIGHT & MANSFIELD/ 104 NEW BOND ST

This piece is in good restored condition. It has been re-finished and the leather is a replacement. Ready to place.
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Wright and Mansfield of 104 New Bond Street, London were a firm which specialised in furniture in the George III and neo classical styles from circa 1860 to 1884. The firm exhibited at the 1862 London Universal Exhibition where they exhibited the award winning satinwood and marquetry cabinet designed in the Sheraton revival style by Mr Crosse, later acquired by the South Kensington Museum, now known as the Victoria and Albert Museum. The magazine `The Cabinet Maker & Art Furnisher' vol. VII, July 1, 1886, reported : `They must be accounted the leaders of that pleasing fashion which has happily brought back into our houses many of the charming shapes of the renowned eighteenth century cabinet makers'; see F.Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, pp.234-7.   

Amongst their more notable commissions apart from the Crosse cabinet is the only surviving suite of reception rooms completely decorated and furnished by the firm for 7th Earl and Countess of Aberdeen in 1880s at Haddo House, Aberdeenshire. Shortly after completing this work, the firm was formally dissolved as a partnership in 1884.