Lot Essay
The table has a 'cut through' fretted ribbon-guilloche with 'picturesque' cartouche framed by lozenged compartments such as featured in a 'Sideboard Table' pattern in Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director, 1754 (pl. 59). The present fret corresponds to that of a side-table sold Christies, London, 28 November 2001, lot 189.