Lot Essay
The table is conceived in the antique manner promoted by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. Its star-studded frieze derives from that of Hope's Egyptian chimneypiece (pl. XVI); and its Egyptian leopardess heads as well as the plinth-supported and sarcophagus-scrolled trestles from a stool and table (pl. XII, nos 5, 6 and 4).
Hope's pair of mahogany tables was sold by Christie's at the Deepdene Sale, July-August 1917, lot 827, and purchased for the Ashmolean Museum (N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, vol. II, Oxford, 1992 nos. 522 and 523).
Hope's pair of mahogany tables was sold by Christie's at the Deepdene Sale, July-August 1917, lot 827, and purchased for the Ashmolean Museum (N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, vol. II, Oxford, 1992 nos. 522 and 523).