A WILLIAM IV EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLE

CIRCA 1815

Details

A WILLIAM IV EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLE
Circa 1815
Inlaid overall with lines, the reverse breakfront top with a molded run to the back edge mounted by a two-tiered brass baluster gallery with S-scroll returns, above a central long freize drawer, the drawer front and each outset side of the frieze centered with a foliate inlaid tablet, each pair of upspringing acanthus-carved lion monopodia upon a further square plinth
56in. (142cm.) high (with the gallery), 96in. (244cm.) wide, 29¼in. (74.5cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous Sale, Christie's London, 23 April 1998, lot 137 (£23,000).

Lot Essay

The acanthus-wrapped lion monopodia relate quite closely to the chimera-supported tripod tables published in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pls. XV and XXXII. An example of this design. A pair of torchéres incorporating these supports in the Victoria and Albert Museum (W.35-1946), is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, London, rev. edn., 1965, p. 21, fig. 21. Another pair of tripod torcheres with palm-wrapped lion monopodia sold from the Coke Collection, Christie's London, 17 October 1996 (£29,900).

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