ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE, CIRCA 1770

This table can be confidently attributed to the Golden Square firm of Mayhew and Ince based on the use of yew-wood as a large scale veneer, 'the only wholly idiosyncratic veneer wood the firm used and possibly unique to Mayhew and Ince among London cabinet-makers of this date' (P. Macquoid & R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 589-593). Notable among the firm’s output in yew was the veneered yew-wood commode they supplied to Sir Brook Bridges of Goodnestone Park, Kent, that was exhibited in Treasures from Kent Houses, Royal Museum, Canterbury, Sept. – Oct. 1984, no. 57. Other pembroke tables by Mayhew and Ince incorporating yew wood are known. For example, one from the Steinberg collection formed by R. W. Symonds which sold Christie’s, London, 19 May 2016, lot 36 (£37,500 incl. prem.).