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).