CIRCA 1720

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A PAIR OF GEORGE I MAHOGANY DROP-LEAF TABLES
CIRCA 1720
Each with rounded rectangular twin-flap top above a plain frieze with a mahogany-lined drawer at each end, on club legs headed by lappets and pad feet, one drawer in each table previously with a till
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 43¾ in. (111 cm.) wide; 15¾ in. (40 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Thomas Parker (1667-1732), 1st Earl of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire and by descent at Shirburn.

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Lot Essay

The tables have palm-wrapped and tapering columnar legs terminating in pad or 'round toe' feet. This elegant George I 'Roman' fashioned leg succeeded the baluster form featured on related six-legged pier tables with folding legs, bureau-falls and drawers provided around 1700 for Boughton House, Northamptonshire (O. Brackett, An Encyclopaedia of English Furniture, London, 1927, p. 94). These tables are likely to have been commissioned for Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire shortly after its purchase in 1716 by the connoisseur Thomas Parker, Baron Parker of Macclesfield, later 1st Earl of Macclesfield (1667-1732).

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