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.
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.