FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

The lion's head monopodia relate to those on a suite of giltwood seat furniture supplied in 1805 to Colonel Hughes for Kinmel Park, Denbighshire by the Oxford Street firm of Gillows. A daybed from the latter suite was sold by Mr Edward Sarofim, in these Rooms, 16 November 1995, lot 143 and its pair is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, no. W.38-1930 (illustrated in F. Collard, Regency Furniture, 1985, p. 102, pl. 11). A further example is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, rev. ed., 1965, p. 81, fig. 192. A closely related console table was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 8 July 1993, lot 61 (£7,475) and another similar table was sold anonymously 6 February 1997, lot 175 (£6,325).