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Lot Essay
This multi-purpose bedroom apartment table, with hinged 'candlestick' flaps, has its elegant herm-tapered and plinth-supported legs enriched with antique flutes in the Roman fashion popularised by Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director (3rd ed., 1762; pl.17). With its inclusion of a gothic-fretted stretcher harking back to the earlier picturesque fashion, it also relates to a table pattern attributed to Chippendale and issued by A Society of Upholsterers in Household Furniture in genteel Taste for the Year 1760 (pl.35).
The underside is branded with the three Murray mullets which may have been used as an indentifying device for items at Kenwood House, London.
The Scone Palace Archive records that Thomas Chippendale supplied looking-glass plates for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield at Kenwood House in 1769. The frames of which were made by William France to Robert Adam's design, see Christopher Gilbert The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, Vol 1., page 256.
The underside is branded with the three Murray mullets which may have been used as an indentifying device for items at Kenwood House, London.
The Scone Palace Archive records that Thomas Chippendale supplied looking-glass plates for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield at Kenwood House in 1769. The frames of which were made by William France to Robert Adam's design, see Christopher Gilbert The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, Vol 1., page 256.