A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE

CIRCA 1765

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE
Circa 1765
The banded rectangular top with gilt-tooled green leather inset and pierced fretwork three-quarter gallery, the frieze with two short divided drawers with cockbeaded surrounds, the square legs with pierced fretwork angles joined by an incurved undertier and with pierced fretwork sides and back, on brass casters, the replaced locks stamped PATENT
34in. (86.5cm.) high, 42in. (106.5cm.) wide, 28½in. deep

Provenance

With Apter Fredericks, London.

Lot Essay

This library table, with its three-quarter open fretwork base more usually associated with 'breakfast'or 'supper tables' such as that depicted in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd Edition, 1763, is extremely unusual in its broad size. A similar table of the same basic design and proportion is illustrated in situ in the Saloon at Chevening, Kent (H.A. Tipping, English Homes, period V, vol.I, London, 1921, p.20, fig.27).

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