Lot Essay
The table's richly carved and serpentined frame, with flower-festooned acanthus, relates to those of chair patterns illustrated in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 1754. A related table, formerly in the Henry Hirsch Collection, is illustrated in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol.III, p. 200, fig. 26. It was sold by him, in these Rooms, 10 June 1931, lot 52.