A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED AND EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY CORNER SERVING-TABLE

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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED AND EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY CORNER SERVING-TABLE
The serpentine-fronted triangular top with a turned gallery with eight uprights above a central frieze drawer inlaid with geometric lines, flanked by a pair of drawers and a pair of hinged doors simulated as drawers, on scrolled square tapering reeded cabriole legs with stepped feet, with chalk inscription to the reverse 'Hamilton', with a modern paper label to the underside of one drawer inscribed in ink 'SIR PATRICK HAMILTON', with depository label to the reverse 'BISHOP & SONS FURNITURE DEPOSITORIES YEW STREET AND EBURY STREET PIMLICO, LONDON S. ALSO WARWICK ROAD, KENSINGTON', with later 1¾ in. wooden gallery to the top, the front right-hand leg with restored break at the top, the brass-gallery lacking two pieces
98 in. (249 cm.) wide; 37 in. (94 cm.) high, excluding gallery; 42¾ in. (108.5 cm.) deep

來源

Sir Patrick Hamilton.

拍品專文

The corner sideboard-table's Grecian ornament, comprising stepped and reeded truss-supports and a frieze inlaid with Grecian-fretted tablets in 'Etruscan'-black ribbon, corresponds to the antique style such as featured in an engraving dated 1805 published in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1808 (pl. 133).

A related corner sideboard with similar black-ribbon inlay and lion monopodia, is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, London, rev. ed., 1965, p. 146, fig. 168. A further related alcove serving-table with scrolled legs was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 17 November 1989, lot 111.