A Regency plum pudding mahogany dining table

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A Regency plum pudding mahogany dining table
By Thomas Wilmott, the associated rounded rectangular top with two leaves, with an inlaid frieze with boxwood and ebony lines, on extending base with six turned tapering legs with brass caps and castors, with brass plaque engraved WILMOTT - PATENT SOFA AND TABLE, MANUFACTURY, JOHN STREET, OXFORD STREET, LONDON, restoration to top
98½in. (250cm.) long fully extended, 36in. (91.5cm.) deep,
one leaf -- 23in. (58cm.) wide, the other leaf -- 22½in. (57cm.) wide, 28¼in. (72cm.) high

Lot Essay

In 1800 Wilmott advertised a number of items of patent furniture including improved dining tables. A sofa table bearing a label with the same address is illustrated in C. Gilbert Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p.490, no.1008.

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