POSSIBLY BY JOHN COBB

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLE
Possibly by John Cobb
The rectangular top above a Vitruvian-scrolled frieze with egg-and-dart border, on square tapering panelled legs headed by foliage and pierced scrolled angle-bracket, on block feet, with paper label to the underside inscribed in ink 'For Jn Scott Esq Banksfee House ...Stow.. Gloucestershire', one angle-bracket replaced
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 72 in. (183 cm.) wide; 32½ in. (82.5 in.) deep

Provenance

Probably supplied to John Scott, Esq., for Banks Fee House, Longborough, Gloucestershire, circa 1765.
Probably sold to E.T. Godman Esq. with the house and by descent at Banks Fee until sold Tayler & Fletcher house sale, 17-18 October 1979, lot 391.
With Glaisher and Nash.
Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury, Avebury Manor, Marlborough, Wiltshire by whom sold with the house to
D. Nevill-Gliddon, Esq., Avebury Manor, Wiltshire, sold Christie's house sale, 21 October 1981, lot 82.
Acquired by the present owner circa 1982.

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Lot Essay

This table is undoubtedly made by the same maker as a table of almost excactly the same design at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, that is attributed to John Cobb on the evidence of several payments by Sir George Strickland of Boynton Hall, Yorkshire, between 1754 and 1773, the largest payments being in 1767 and 1773 (C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, II, no. 337, pp. 278-280).
The two tables are of the same design except in specific details: the Temple Newsam table has a moulding between top and frieze; the Banks Fee table has flowerhead paterae at each end of the Vitruvian scroll frieze. The most extraordinary connection is the carriage labels of the same type, inscribed in the same hand and attached in the same place on each table with six nails. It is possible that both tables were supplied by John Cobb.

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