Lot 42
42
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A MID-GEORGIAN LABURNUM SPIDER-GATELEG TABLE, the twin-flap rectangular top with re-entrant corners and moulded edge, crossbanded with padoukwood, on eight turned legs joined by a turned stretcher and with baluster feet, restorations

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A MID-GEORGIAN LABURNUM SPIDER-GATELEG TABLE, the twin-flap rectangular top with re-entrant corners and moulded edge, crossbanded with padoukwood, on eight turned legs joined by a turned stretcher and with baluster feet, restorations
30in. (76cm.) wide; 28½in. (72.5cm.) high; 26¼in. (67cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A 'butterfly' breakfast-table of this type is described by Thomas Chippendale as 'a mahogany eight-leg table' in his 1768 account for furniture supplied to Mersham in Kent (see: C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, fig. 410

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