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Lot Essay
The decoration of the tops relates closely to that found on furniture made by the firm of Wright and Mansfield. The taste for such 'Sheraton' or 'Adams' [sic] furniture developed in the 1860s and 1870s, particularly after the acquisition by the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria & Albert Museum) of a cabinet exhibited by Wright & Mansfield in the Paris exhibition of 1867. In particular, the handling of the floral swags and figure painting on the Victoria & Albert Museum cabinet relate to that on the present example (C. Wainwright, 'The Dark Ages of art revived', Connoisseur, June 1978, pp. 95-105).
A related pair of pier tables was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 4 July 1997, lot 115 (£41,100) and a table with an almost identical decorative configuration of its top is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Age of Satinwood, London, 1908, figs. 212 & 213.
A related pair of pier tables was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 4 July 1997, lot 115 (£41,100) and a table with an almost identical decorative configuration of its top is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Age of Satinwood, London, 1908, figs. 212 & 213.