A GEORGE III SATINWOOD CHEVERET

The design for this table and accompanying portable top appears first in Gillows' Furniture Designs, where it was referred to as a "Sheveret" table (see Lindsay Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800 (Bloomfield Press, 1995), ill. no. 45 (fig. 1). For similar examples, see Sotheby's London, John Keil Furniture from 154 Brompton Road, April 7, 1998, lot 78; Christie's New York, The Doris Duke Collection, June 3-4, 2004, lot 889 and Christie's New York, Important English Furniture, October 14, 2004, lot 83.

As shown in a December, 1923 photograph, this cheveret furnished the Morning Room at Blairhame (Blair Family album).