A GEORGE III PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY AND FUSTIC BREAKFAST-TABLE

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A GEORGE III PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY AND FUSTIC BREAKFAST-TABLE
The rectangular twin-flapped top with gadrooned edge, above a mahogany- lined frieze drawer, with dark-red leather-lined slide, the flaps with C-scroll and blind-trellis lopers, above a pair of concave-fronted red material-backed brass trellis-pannelled doors with egg-and-dart moulding, the sides and reverse with conforming trellis and with a simulated drawer to the reverse, on square chamfered crossbanded legs, headed by pierced C-scroll angle-brackets, on block feet with gadrooned banding, brass castors, the drawer previously with divides, the inside of the back right-hand leg not banded, probably embellished with carving and trellis in the 19th Century
28 in. (73 cm.) high; 42 in. (107 cm) wide, open; 24 in. (61 cm) deep

Lot Essay

The basic form of this table relates to a 'breakfast table' pattern in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 3rd ed., 1762 (left side of pl. LIII). A related table listed as a 'Mahogany Pembroke Table' in the 1765 inventory of Hackwood and noted in the 1795 inventory as having a 'wire closet under it', was sold from Hackwood Park, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Christie's house sale, 20-22 April 1998, lot 250.

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