A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE SERVING-TABLE

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE SERVING-TABLE
The plain frieze centred by a laurel swag enclosing a drawer, on square tapering legs headed by oval sunflower paterae, on block feet, inscribed in ink 'T O sell cost s:o/6 H.H', some replacements to veneer on edge of top
36½ in. (92.5 cm.) high; 76 in. (193 cm.) wide; 35½ in. (90 cm.) deep

Provenance

Bought from Hotspur Ltd., London, 24 June 1968 (£1,675).
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 21 October 1999, lot 89 ($63,000).

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Lot Essay

The sideboard-table, with its Roman tablet of a laurel festooned and sunflowered patera, is designed in the antique manner popularised by Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. A related tablet features on a sideboard-table illustrated in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the 18th Century, vol. III, 1911, fig. 11.
When this table was sold at Christie's New York, the inscription was erroneously transcribed as a signature, 'J. Bell'.

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