Lot Essay
The elliptical table, with antique flute-enriched frieze and hermed and tablet-ringed legs, relates to pier-tables supplied in the 1770s for Heveningham Hall, Suffolk and Inveraray Castle, Scotland attributed to John Linnell of Berkeley Square (H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London, 1980, vol. II, figs. 307 and 309). However, this table is likely to have been executed by William Moore (d. 1815), who worked with Messrs. Mayhew and Ince of Golden Square, London. In 1783, he established his Abbey Street, Dublin premises and advertised 'Pier-tables...in the newest taste'. Tables with this frame pattern were sold by The Earl of Iveagh, Elveden Hall, Thetford, Norfolk, Christie's house sale, 22 May 1984, lot 664, and from the collection of the late G.A.V. Duckworth, Esq., Orchardleigh Park, Somerset, Christie's house sale, 21 September 1987, lot 437, while another was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 29 November 1984, lot 76. A cabinet, with related marquetry legs, attributed to Moore, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 4 July 1997, lot 74.