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PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE EVELYN M. D'AMBRUMENIL, SOLD BY ORDER OF THE BENEFICIARY

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHINA TABLE

CIRCA 1765

Details

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHINA TABLE
CIRCA 1765
With rectangular galleried top above a frieze with blind-fretwork panels on the front and sides, on square chamfered legs headed by later angle-brackets, joined by a pierced X-shaped stretcher, the gallery probably original (see below)
30 in. (76.5 cm.) high; 33½ in. (85 cm.) wide; 20 in. (50.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This table is unusual in having blind-fretwork frieze decoration on only one long side and the two short sides. The reverse frieze remains blank. It is possible that it was originally designed to display something and to stand at the side of a room.

A similarly fretted 'tray top' features on a 1786 'tea table' pattern in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 73).

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