Lot Essay
Related patterns for tray-topped 'china tables' were published by Thomas Chippendale in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754 (pl. XXXIV).
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE
The rectangular top with pierced Gothic fretwork gallery, above a frieze with blind Gothic tracery, on square chamfered legs with conforming tracery headed by pierced angle-brackets and joined by a pierced X-shaped stretcher, on block feet, one long side of the gallery replaced, later blocking to the underside of the top
31 in. (79 cm.) high; 34 in. (88 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep
The rectangular top with pierced Gothic fretwork gallery, above a frieze with blind Gothic tracery, on square chamfered legs with conforming tracery headed by pierced angle-brackets and joined by a pierced X-shaped stretcher, on block feet, one long side of the gallery replaced, later blocking to the underside of the top
31 in. (79 cm.) high; 34 in. (88 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep