Lot Essay
In March 1835, Robert Jupe, upholster of 47 Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, patented a design for 'an improved expanding table so constructed that the secitons composing its surface may be caused to diverge from a common center and that the spaces caused thereby may be filled up by inserting leaves or filling pieces'. The first tables made before 1840 were by John Johnstone of 67 New Bond Street, and subsequently subsequently traded as Johnstone & Jeanes after 1842.
This table bears the same brass plaque and impressed marks of the firm as one illustrated in C.Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, 1996, p.283, pl.530-531. Identical tables include one illustrated in E.Aslin, 19th Century English Furniture, 1962, pl.5; another illustrated in F.Collard, Regency Furniture, 1985, p.24; a further example of this design was sold Christie's South Kensington, 6 July 1988. As with this table, some of these tables were supplied with a leaf cabinet.
This table bears the same brass plaque and impressed marks of the firm as one illustrated in C.Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, 1996, p.283, pl.530-531. Identical tables include one illustrated in E.Aslin, 19th Century English Furniture, 1962, pl.5; another illustrated in F.Collard, Regency Furniture, 1985, p.24; a further example of this design was sold Christie's South Kensington, 6 July 1988. As with this table, some of these tables were supplied with a leaf cabinet.