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Lot Essay
The present table can be related to the work of the English cabinetmaker John Maclean & Son, who practiced at Marylebone Street in London at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Several features also appear on many of the Maclean pieces such as the use of rosewood veneers highlighted by brass mounts on a restrained neoclassical form. The particular detail of a star mount on the drawer pull also appears on a sofa table in rosewood by Maclean, which is illustrated in S. Redburn, 'John McLean and Son', Furniture History, 1978, Vol. XIV, pl. 41B.
An identical table was sold Christie's London, 13 April 1989, lot 139 and one is illustrated in F. Lewis Hinckley, Hepplewhite, Sheraton & Regency Furniture, 1987, p. 95, pl. 181. Other examples of this model are known, including one sold anonymously in Christie's London, 12 March 1970, lot 24, one formerly belonging to the 5th Baron Brownlow was sold at Sotheby's London, 10 July 1987, lot 99, and another from the Moller Collection at Thorncombe Park, Surrey, was sold Sotheby's London, 18 November 1993, lot 127.
An identical table was sold Christie's London, 13 April 1989, lot 139 and one is illustrated in F. Lewis Hinckley, Hepplewhite, Sheraton & Regency Furniture, 1987, p. 95, pl. 181. Other examples of this model are known, including one sold anonymously in Christie's London, 12 March 1970, lot 24, one formerly belonging to the 5th Baron Brownlow was sold at Sotheby's London, 10 July 1987, lot 99, and another from the Moller Collection at Thorncombe Park, Surrey, was sold Sotheby's London, 18 November 1993, lot 127.