A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD AND MAHOGANY JARDINIERE inlaid overall with foliate scrolls premieer and contre partie marquetry, the open rectangular top with later brass liner above a foliate frieze and tapering sides inset with glazed later painted panels of Greek ruins on a octagonal shaft with volutes at top and bottom and on concave-sided canted rectangualr platform base banded in dog-tooth and on scrolled paw feet, the painted panels signed DOROTHY TURTON. RMS MASF, partially adapted to take the painted panels, with later mahogany surrounds

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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD AND MAHOGANY JARDINIERE inlaid overall with foliate scrolls premieer and contre partie marquetry, the open rectangular top with later brass liner above a foliate frieze and tapering sides inset with glazed later painted panels of Greek ruins on a octagonal shaft with volutes at top and bottom and on concave-sided canted rectangualr platform base banded in dog-tooth and on scrolled paw feet, the painted panels signed DOROTHY TURTON. RMS MASF, partially adapted to take the painted panels, with later mahogany surrounds
26¼in. (67cm.) wide; 28in. (71cm.) high; 17¼in. (44cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Designed in the George IV French 'antique' manner popularised as the Louis Quartorze style by George Smith in his Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826, its impressive lion-paw feet and arabesque-acanthus inlay relate to the work of S. Jamar of Wardour Street (fl. 1818-26), one of the leading 'Buhl Manufacturers' listed in the 1820s London directories. A related card-table is illustrated M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, rev. ed. 1965, p. 72, fig. 160

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