A GEORGE III PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY AND FUSTIC BREAKFAST-TABLE

CIRCA 1765, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN COBB

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A GEORGE III PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY AND FUSTIC BREAKFAST-TABLE
CIRCA 1765, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN COBB
The twin-flapped top with gadrooned edge, above a frieze drawer, with dark-red leather-lined slide, above a pair of concave-fronted red material-backed brass trellis-panelled doors moulding, on square chamfered legs, headed by pierced C-scroll angle-brackets, on block feet and brass castors, the drawer previously with divides, the inside of the back right-hand leg not crossbanded, probably embellished with carving and trellis in the 19th century
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 42 in. (107 cm.) wide, open; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The basic form of this table relates to a 'breakfast table' pattern in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 3rd ed., 1762 (left side of pl. LIII). A related table listed as a 'Mahogany Pembroke Table' in the 1765 inventory of Hackwood and noted in the 1795 inventory as having a 'wire closet under it', was sold from Hackwood Park, Basingstoke, Hampshire, Christie's house sale, 20-22 April 1998, lot 250.

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