AFTER A PATENTED MODEL BY S. MARTIN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY EXTENDING DINING-TABLE
AFTER A PATENTED MODEL BY S. MARTIN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rounded rectangular reeded top above a frieze with reeded corners, on four ring-turned supports and a concave-sided platform with acanthus-carved hipped legs, on brass paw feet, with three leaves
28 in. (71 cm.) high; 85½ in. (7ft. 1½ in., 217 cm.) long; 48 in. (122 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 November 1996, lot 225.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 14 September 2006, lot 464.

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Lot Essay

A table of similar design with a brass plaque engraved 'S. MARTIN INVENIT ET FECIT', was with Randolph at The Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, 1978. The latter was illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture: 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 320, fig. 608) and was thought to be by Samuel Martin of Norwich. A closely related table was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 12 February 1998, lot 194.

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