THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A GEORGE III SABICU AND SYCAMORE BREAKFAST-TABLE

Details
A GEORGE III SABICU AND SYCAMORE BREAKFAST-TABLE
Banded in rosewood, the rectangular moulded top with an inset oval and crossbanding flanked by two flaps with inset rectangular panels with cut corners, above a frieze-drawer with ratcheted writing-slide covered in green leather and enclosing a partitioned well, above two concave-fronted doors with gilt wire-tellis enclosing an undertier and above square legs terminating in brass caps and castors, the castors stamped 'COPE'S PATENT', the top with restored cracks and the central panels of each section of the top re-veneered, formerly with fabric backing to the lower section
22 in. (56 cm.) wide; 28½ in. (72 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep, closed
Provenance
James Thursby-Pelham, Esq.
Mrs. Sotheby Bird, sold in these Rooms, 5 April 1973, lot 40.

Lot Essay

The table-top of golden and silken sycamore, ribbon-banded with black rosewood, display a tablet-flanked medallion, and as the breakfasting-table for a bedroom apartment was appropriately inlaid with an Apollo sunburst (since removed). Its hollow-fronted commode doors, framed by Etruscan-black ribbon inlay, is fitted, like the sides, with golden wire-trellis that is platted in hexagon-compartmented mosaic bands.
The same patterned top, including the hollow-cornered tablets, features on a table manufactured circa 1776 by Henry Kettle (d.1796), cabinet-maker of St. Paul's Churchyard (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 289, fig. 543.

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