CIRCA 1745

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE
CIRCA 1745
With a rounded rectangular twin-flap top above a shallow drawer on turned legs joined by an X-stretcher, probably originally with two further trangular infills, on wooden two-directional castors
27 in. (69 cm.) high; 41 in. (104 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from Jeremy, 15 May 1974.

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Lot Essay

A pattern for a related Bedroom apartment Breakfast Table, with hinged candle-flaps, frieze drawer and crossed stretcher-tray for ewer and basin featured in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director, 1754 (pl.33). The contemporary label of the Clerkenwell cabinet-makers Richard and William Gomm has also been recorded on a related castor-fitted table, with square pilaster rather turned pillar legs (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, p.226 figs. 401 and 402).

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