EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With two frieze drawers on square tapering legs, the side rail with applied label 'THIS...BELONGS TO THOMAS ROGERS OF NEWINGTON GREEN - FROM WHOM IT CAME TO HIS SON SAMUEL..AT THIS BREAKFAST AND DINNER PARTIES HAVE SAT AT IT', a list of names follows including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Brown, Thackery, Dickens
28¼in. (71.5cm.) high, 51½in. (131cm.) wide extended, 51½in. (131cm.) deep

Provenance

Samuel Rogers, Esq. (1763-1855), 22 St Jamees's Place, London.

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Lot Essay

Samuel Rogers (1763-1856), poet, banker and connoisseur built his house at 22 St James's Palace in 1802 with the assistance of John Flaxman (1755-1826) and Thomas Stohard (1755-1834). For the next fifty years he entertained celebrated writers and artists, and an invitation to one of his breakfasts was considered a formal entry into literary society. His best known poem remains The Pleasures of Memory of 1792 of which Byron said "There is not a vulgar line in the poem". His collection including his extensive library was sold at Christie's in May 1856.

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