IN THE MANNER OF MAYHEW AND INCE, CIRCA 1775

Certain design features on these tables such as the rounded corners embellished with sunflower paterae and tapering fluted supports feature on a commode from the Arthur Leidesdorf collection, sold Sotheby & Co., London, 27-28 June 1974, lot 101. The Leidesdorf commode itself corresponds to another larger example with swag-carved embellishments which was almost certainly supplied by Mayhew and Ince to the 9th Earl of Winchilsea for Burley-on-the-Hill after he succeeded to the title in 1769 (illustrated in R. Edwards, ed., The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev.edn., London, 1954, vol.II, fig.56), sold Christie's London, 6 July 1989, lot 147. Substantial payments to the firm amounting to over £2,600 are recorded from 1772 to 1776 (Leicester Record Office).