Lot Essay
Related palm-flowered leopard monopodia feature on a writing-table pattern and a library table pattern both of 1804, published in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1808, pls. 83 and 87. A plinth-supported table of this pattern, may have formed part of the furnishings supplied by Gillows of London and Lancaster to Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby (d. 1803) for Sandon Park, Staffordshire, while a second table was at one time in the possession of Messrs. Ayers & Co., Bath (illustrated in C. Aslet and M. Hall, 'Sandon Hall, Staffordshire', Country Life, 13 June 1991, p. 177, fig. 6 and M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, London, rev. ed., 1965, p. 78, fig. 181). The monopodium pattern featured on a Grecian sofa supplied circa 1805 by Gillows of Oxford Street, to Colonel Hughes for Kinmel Park, Denbighshire, which was sold from the collection of Mr. Edward Sarofim in these Rooms, 16 November 1995, lot 143. The leopard monopodia had identical zig-zag collars and palm-flowered breastplates.