Lot Essay
The pattern for this type of 'Gentleman's Writing Table' after a design by George Hepplewhite (d.1786), was published in, The Cabinet-maker's London Book of Prices, 2nd ed., 1793, pl.21 (E. White, Furniture Designs, London, 1990, p.219).
The prototype for this 'Carlton House' table pattern is one fitted with Bramah locks, and supplied in the first decade of the 19th Century to George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV. (Illustrated C. Musgrave, Regency Furniture, London, 1901, fig.74).
Its French style reed-capped columnar legs derive from an 'antique' chair pattern illustrated by Thomas Hope, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl.11.
The prototype for this 'Carlton House' table pattern is one fitted with Bramah locks, and supplied in the first decade of the 19th Century to George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV. (Illustrated C. Musgrave, Regency Furniture, London, 1901, fig.74).
Its French style reed-capped columnar legs derive from an 'antique' chair pattern illustrated by Thomas Hope, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl.11.