A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TRAVELLING PAINTING-TABLE

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 34-35)

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TRAVELLING PAINTING-TABLE
The removable top section with a rectangular hinged lid banded in ebony and boxwood and enclosing a ratcheted mirror within a marquetry frame, above a shallow side drawer and a further drawer containing glass pots of paint, the front drawer locked, the removable fitted table top with two wells above a shallow drawer with fitted interior and a removable folio-rack, on square tapering fluted legs headed by shaped panels and on stepped tapering feet, the front drawer locked
22¼ in. (56.5 cm.) wide; 38 in. (96.5 cm.) high; 22¼ in. (56.5 cm.) deep

Sale room notice

The width is 28 in. (71 cm.) and not as stated in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

The design of this sophisticated portable painting-table is very unusual indicating that it was probably commissioned for an individual artist. The hermed leg with patera-enriched tablets features on a wine-cooler of the late 1760s that has been attributed to Thomas Chippendale and was formerly at Cannon Hall, Yorkshire (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, p.78, fig. 120).

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