A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY SILVER TABLE

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A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY SILVER TABLE
Of George III style, the serpentine rectangular top with pierced fretwork gallery above a serpentine frieze carved with blind fret and above a foliate carved waved apron, on eight tapering legs paired at the eared corners of the top, and joined by a bar stretcher pierced with a quatrefoil, on pierced bulbous quatrefoil feet, restorations and replacements to gallery, inscribed indistinctly in chalk to the underside BAER
45in. (114.5cm.) wide; 31in. (79cm.) high; 27in. (69cm.) deep

Provenance

Almost certainly H. Percy Dean, Esq, Bridgefoot House, Iver, Buckinghamshire until sold in these Rooms, 14 June 1909, lot 37.
Almost certainly A.M.Thomas.
Almost certainly with M.Harris and Sons.

Literature

Percy Macquoid, A History of English Furniture, The Age of Mahogany, London, 1906, page 236, fig.219.
M.Harris and Sons, A Catalogue and Index of Old Furniture and Works of Decorative Art, Part II, London, nd, page 214.

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Lot Essay

The china display-table and its tea equipage formed part of the furnishings of the eighteenth century dressing-room that served as a fashionable salle de reception. This elegantly serpentined and scalloped table, with its fretted tray-gallery and hermed pillars on fretted vase feet, displays the fanciful combination of Chinese, Gothic, antique, and French elements that was described as 'Modern' in Thomas Chippendale's, Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, where its 'China Table' pattern appears in Plate XXXIV. The latter was reissued in the 3rd edition of 1762 (pl. L1); while a closely related pattern for the tray fret of this table features in J. Crunden's, The Joyner and Cabinet-Maker's Darling, 1765 (pl. 7).

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