Lot Essay
cf. the Mackintosh square card tables (1897.13 and 1900.8) for the Argyle Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow, and Mackintosh's own flat at 120 Main Street, Glasgow, respectively. See Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1980, pp. 45 and 75 wherein Billcliffe notes the publication of the card table design in the Studio Special Number, 1901, p. 115; and Charlotte Gere and Michael Whiteway, Nineteenth Century Design, 1993, p. 240, pl. 302, C.F.A. Voysey's "Tempus Fugit" mantel clock, first published in The Studio, May 14, 1896. Both of these examples illustrate the British design trend featuring broad overhanging tops over shaped aprons which was widely published. The designer of the present example may have been inspired by British designs in the outline of this piece. The linear inlaid design is not dissimilar to that used in American Federal pieces.