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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY PEMBROKE TABLE

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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY PEMBROKE TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

Crossbanded with sabicu and with ebonised moulded edge, the moulded crossbanded rectangular twin-flap top with three quarter-veneered panels within boxwood-lined borders centred by a gadrooned rosette patera within a foliate concave-sided lozenge flanked by further rosette patera swagged with berried husks, the panelled frieze with one mahogany-lined drawer and one simulated drawer to the reverse flanked by cut-cornered panels, on rosette patera-headed square tapering legs inlaid with simulated cut-cornered panels and on square tapering block feet with brass castors
42in. (107cm.) wide, extended; 28in. (71.5in.) high; 26¼in. (66.5cm.) deep

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The Pembroke table has its Etruscan-black banded top quarter-veneered with rays springing from a Palmyreen-sunflowered medallion that is displayed within a husk-festooned and lozenged mosaic compartment. Similar husk-festooned medallions embellish its flaps. More flowered paterae embellish the hermed legs which are inlaid with trompe l'oeil flutes. While sharing a number of features in common with the 'Minerva' commode supplied in 1773 to Harewood House, Yorkshire by Thomas Chippendale (d.1779; see C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, vol. II, London, 1978, fig.232), it is also fitted with a pattern of 'Etruscan'-ring handle that features on other Chippendale furniture including a table supplied to Paxton House in 1774 (ibid., fig.398).

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