A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WORK TABLE

CIRCA 1775

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY WORK TABLE
Circa 1775
The molded rectangular top with eared serpentine front above a conforming tan tooled leather writing slide and mahogany-lined fitted frieze drawer, the shaped apron above tapering cabriole legs joined by a reverse breakfront undertier with three quarter gallery, the removable sliding side panels and back with pleated gold silk
28½in. (72cm.) high, 24in. (61cm.) wide, 16¼in. (41cm.) deep

來源

Acquired from Denys Wrey Ltd., London.

拍品專文

Executed in the French taste popularized by cabinet-makers such as John Cobb (d. 1778) and Thomas Chippendale (d. 1778), this form of serpentine dressing table, which often had a hinged top concealing compartments and a mirror, is included as a design in Messrs. A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pl. 2. Related tables include: one without the fire screen-slides sold from the Estate of David Berg, these Rooms, 21 October 1999, lot 87 ($27,600); another with an ogee-shaped apron that sold anonymously, Christie's London, 13 April 1989, lot 68 (£7,700); and two others with fixed, galleried tops illustrated in F. Lewis Hinkley, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and Regency Furniture, New York, 1987, figs. 21-2.