CIRCA 1765, TOP RESET AND POSSIBLY ASSOCIATED TO BASE

A tripod table executed in padoukwood with similarly elegant double-scroll legs in reverse profile was sold from the Sir Michael Sobell Collection, Christie's London, 23 June 1994, lot 120 (originally purchased from Hotspur). Another is illustrated in L. Synge, Great English Furniture, London, 1991, p.111, fig.123, and a third example was sold anonymously, Sotheby's New York, 16-17 April 1998, lot 901 ($107,000). The classically conceived fluted bulb stem enclosing guilloche ribbon is an apparently unique design element on a table of this form.