THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE
Third quarter 18th Century
With hinged bevelled plate above three mahogany-lined small drawers and a drawer front enclosing a fold up table-top, the sides and reverse with hinged flaps designed to join together to form a table-top around the main body, above two drawers, on cabriole legs, with printed paper label '145' and another for 1904 Bradford Corporation Loan Exhibition inscribed in ink 'Puff and Powder Table Sam Ambler Lady ...Bfd ', with later George I style mahogany frame for extra support of the flaps, with cabriole legs and pad feet
52 in. (132 cm.) high; 19 in. (48 cm.) wide, closed; 12½ in. (32 cm.) deep, closed
45 in. (114.5 cm.) wide, open; 24½ in. (62 cm.) deep, open

Provenance

Sam Ambler (?).

Literature

M. Jourdain and F. Rose, English Furniture, The Georgian Period, London, 1953, fig. 122.

Exhibited

Bradford Corporation Loan Exhibition, 1904.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The dressing-table, designed in the George II 'Roman' fashion, with triumphal-arched stand and trussed columnar legs, incorporates a mirrored dressing-box for the 'necessary equipage', and is of a type referred to as 'Union Suites' by the Soho cabinet-maker John Hodson in 1739 (A. Coleridge, 'John Hodson and some cabinet-makers at Blair Castle', Connoisseur, April, 1963, p. 230, fig. 15).

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