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Lot Essay
This pair of tables relate to documented furniture supplied by George Oakley for Charles Madryll Cheere at Papworth Hall, Cambridge, after 1809. A games table from this commission, subsequently inherited by Mrs. Stileman, is illustrated in R. Edwards, ed., The Dictionary of English Furniture, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1954, vol. III, p. 202, fig. 42. A nest of tables also probably from this commission with the same distinctive brass inlay in ebony on a calamander ground was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 21 January 1999, lot 476.
George Oakley (d.1840) worked in partnership with various cabinet-makers including George Shackleton and George Seddon, producing furniture in the Grecian taste and specializing in 'buhl' inlay (ed. G. Beard, C. Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 658-660).
George Oakley (d.1840) worked in partnership with various cabinet-makers including George Shackleton and George Seddon, producing furniture in the Grecian taste and specializing in 'buhl' inlay (ed. G. Beard, C. Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 658-660).