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Lot Essay
This elegant reed-enriched and spindle-galleried plate-stand is fitted with a stretcher-tray and may well be one of two pairs originally at Kenwood, Hamspstead. The catalogue photograph of C.B. King's house sale at Kenwood, 6 November 1922, lots 981 and 982, shows a stand with plain turned baluster legs. However, within two years of that sale, a stand with more elaborate legs, exactly as on the present lot, was advertised by Messrs. Wilberg in Country Life (2 August 1924) as being from Kenwood. It seems likely that the house contained both patterns.
They are likely to have formed part of the dining-room furnishings commissioned in 1801-2 from Gillows by David Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield (d.1840), and were listed in the 1831 inventory of the house (J. Bryant, Kenwood, 1990)
The plainer model is illustrated, although without the provenance being given, in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. III, p. 163, fig. 1.
They are likely to have formed part of the dining-room furnishings commissioned in 1801-2 from Gillows by David Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield (d.1840), and were listed in the 1831 inventory of the house (J. Bryant, Kenwood, 1990)
The plainer model is illustrated, although without the provenance being given, in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. III, p. 163, fig. 1.