An excellent and very attractive early Victorian work/sewing table - antique

Excellent and highly attractive early Victorian work table made of gonçalo alves, with a rounded rectangular top with gadrooned edging over a single frieze drawer and shaped, pleated box, raised on a turned column ending in a clover-shaped base, with scrolling legs and original brass casters, all decorated with bobble detailing, circa 1850.

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