THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SPIDER GATELEG TABLE
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular twin-flap top on six turned legs and pad feet, the underside with label inscribed in ink 'Kingsthorp'
28¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 28¾ in. (73 cm.) wide; 33¾ in. (86 cm.) deep

Provenance

(Possibly) The Rev'd Sir Henry Bate Johnson (d.1824), Kingsthorpe Hall, Northamptonshire.

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Lot Essay

Another round-toed 'spider' table was invoiced in 1768 as an '8 leg Table of fine wood £2.2.0', when supplied for Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent in 1768 by Thomas Chippendale of St. Martin's Lane (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, fig. 410 and pp. 222, 230).
The present table, bearing a 'Kingsthorp' label, may have been supplied to the Rev'd Sir Henry Bate Johnson (d. 1824) of Kingsthorpe Hall, Northamptonshire, whose portrait by Thomas Gainsborough was executed around 1780.

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