POSSIBLY BY GILLOWS, MID-18TH CENTURY, THE TOP FIDDLEBACK MAHOGANY AND PROBABLY ORIGINAL

With its fluted cabriole legs with 'Gothick' ogee panels, boldly scrolled feet and foliate-carved plain baluster shaft, this tripod table is closely related to a drawing for a Tea 'kitchen' kettle stand by Gillows, dated May 1769. Executed by William Ball and Richard Gibson, who were journeymen working for Richard Gillow, and supplied to Thomas Willis, Esq., the drawing also featured a candle-slide beneath the top, although its top has a columnar gallery. Although the scalloped edge of the Berg table is unusual, there are no signs of any previous gallery, and the superbly-figured fiddleback mahogany of the top displays an extremely good even, oxidised colour to the underside, which would appear to suggest that it is original.