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Lot Essay
The sideboard-table, with bas-relief libation-paterae festooned in beribboned laurels, is designed in the George III 'Roman' fashion popularised by The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, 3 vols, 1773-1822.
The unusual construction and use of carved mahogany applied to wire, a technique used in the construction of delicate carved peripheral elements on mirrors, suggests that this table was not constructed by a cabinet-maker, but a maker more familiar with carving mirrors or giltwood. It was probably constructed by an estate workshop on the Cholmeley family estate in Lincolnshire.
The unusual construction and use of carved mahogany applied to wire, a technique used in the construction of delicate carved peripheral elements on mirrors, suggests that this table was not constructed by a cabinet-maker, but a maker more familiar with carving mirrors or giltwood. It was probably constructed by an estate workshop on the Cholmeley family estate in Lincolnshire.