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Lot Essay
This serving-table relates to an Egyptian sideboard pattern engraved in 1804 by George Smith, Upholsterer to George, Prince of Wales, later George IV, and published in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808, pl. 92. Smith considered the style as 'Proper for Dining Rooms'.
The style was adopted by firms such as Gillows during the following decade. Designs for related tables appear in the firm's Estimate Sketch Books now in the Westminster City Archives, E.S. 2085 (September 1818) and E.S. 3019 (June 1821).
An almost identical pair of serving-tables, almost certainly supplied to the 8th Earl of Coventry (d. 1843) for Croome Court, Worcestershire, was sold by Sir John Smith C.H., C.B.E, in these Rooms, 14 June 2001, lot 165 (£37,600). Another related pair from Scutterskelfe Park, Yorkshire, was sold by Viscount Falkland, in these Rooms, 7 February 1991, lot 104.
The style was adopted by firms such as Gillows during the following decade. Designs for related tables appear in the firm's Estimate Sketch Books now in the Westminster City Archives, E.S. 2085 (September 1818) and E.S. 3019 (June 1821).
An almost identical pair of serving-tables, almost certainly supplied to the 8th Earl of Coventry (d. 1843) for Croome Court, Worcestershire, was sold by Sir John Smith C.H., C.B.E, in these Rooms, 14 June 2001, lot 165 (£37,600). Another related pair from Scutterskelfe Park, Yorkshire, was sold by Viscount Falkland, in these Rooms, 7 February 1991, lot 104.