Lot 38
38
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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND PAINTED SMALL PEMBROKE TABLE, the oval twin-flap top inset with a pale-blue-painted cardboard panel centred by a circle depicting ......... in her chariot, flanked by floral trails and grisille putti and within an interlined foliate border, with one cedar-lined frieze drawer and on turned tapering legs headed by bellflowers and carved with elongated lotus-leaf, on turned feet, formerly with castors

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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND PAINTED SMALL PEMBROKE TABLE, the oval twin-flap top inset with a pale-blue-painted cardboard panel centred by a circle depicting ......... in her chariot, flanked by floral trails and grisille putti and within an interlined foliate border, with one cedar-lined frieze drawer and on turned tapering legs headed by bellflowers and carved with elongated lotus-leaf, on turned feet, formerly with castors
32in.(81cm.)wide; 26¾in.(68cm.)high; 20½in.(52cm.)deep

Lot Essay

Henry Clay (d.1812) of Birmingham, after opening premises in King Street, Covent Garden in the 1780s, was appointed 'Japanner in Ordinary' to King George III and George, Prince of Wales. He specialised in decorative items in Papier maché, or 'paper-work', such as tea caddies and coffee trays, and supplied a related painted breakfast or pembroke table for the dressing room at Osterley Park House in the mid-1770s. (See: M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1972, no. J/5

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