LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SUPPER TABLE
Late 18th Century
The drop-leaf top above a frieze drawer and fretwork sides, on chamfered legs, old damages to fretwork
27¾ in. (17.5 cm.) high; 42 in. (106.5 cm.) wide fully extended; 25½ in. (64.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The bedroom-apartment table fitted with hinged 'Pembroke' flaps, drawers and enclosed stretcher-trays was advertised as a 'Breakfast Table' in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director, 1754 (pl.33). The latter featured ribbon-fretted rails in the Chinese or so-called 'India' fashion. This table's rails, with central lozenged compartment, relates to those of a table, fitted with commode-doors, in the Earl of Mansfield's collection at Scone Palace, Scotland (A.Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 211).

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