A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLE

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Details

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLE
CIRCA 1775

In the manner of Mayhew and Ince, the serpentine canted top with molded edge above a plain frieze centered by a panel of an urn flanked by scrolls and hung with bead swags, on square tapering fluted legs headed by satinwood ovals and on spade feet with conforming inlay--34½in. (87.5cm.) high, 71¼in. (181cm.) wide, 26in. (66cm.) deep

Provenance

Purchased by Sir Michael Sobell for Bakeham House, Surrey from M. Harris and Sons on 31 January 1961 for £1,000
Christie's London, 23 June 1994, lot 56

Lot Essay

The combination of ebonised molded borders and elongated inlaid ovals is characteristic of the Golden Square firm of Mayhew and Ince. These details feature on a commode from Chevening, Kent, exhibited in Treasures from Kent Houses, Royal Museum, Canterbury, 1984, no. 63. A serving-table of the same boldly serpentined form was almost certainly supplied to the 3rd Duke of Dorset for 33 (now 38) Grosvenor Square, a house for which Mayhew and Ince is thought to have supplied furniture.