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Lot Essay
The present table with its decisively carved hipped legs and frieze pierced with trellis and centred by a portrait medallion is comparable to several examples illustrated in H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, Vol. II, München, 1970, pl. 483-484 and in C, Graf von Pfeil, Die Möbel der Residenz Ansbach, München, 1999 p. 170.
The label to the reverse of the frieze represents the coats-of-arms arms of Milbanke impaling another, probably Mansfield. These almost certainly belong to Sir John Ralph Milbanke 8th Bt. (1800-1868) and his wife Emily, daughter of John Mansfield of Digswell House, Hertfordshire. They were married in 1843. Sir John Milbanke was British ambassador in Munich.
The label to the reverse of the frieze represents the coats-of-arms arms of Milbanke impaling another, probably Mansfield. These almost certainly belong to Sir John Ralph Milbanke 8th Bt. (1800-1868) and his wife Emily, daughter of John Mansfield of Digswell House, Hertfordshire. They were married in 1843. Sir John Milbanke was British ambassador in Munich.