CIRCA 1780, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

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TWO GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD CROSSBANDED SIDEBOARD TABLES
Circa 1780, in the manner of Thomas Chippendale
Each with a rectangular top above an entwined ribbon-guilloche border, the frieze flanked by sunflowered paterae on square tapering fluted and reed legs enriched with panelled feet
One table 128 cm. (50 1/2 in.) wide; 79 cm. (31 1/4 in.) high; 65 cm. (25 1/2 in.) deep; and the other, 117 cm. (46 in.) wide; 79 cm. (31 1/4 in.) high; 64 cm. (25 1/4 in.) deep
See illustration (2)

Provenance

The tables are almost certainly commissioned by John Harvey (Fl. 1780) for the magnificient Carolean mansion at Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire and thench by descent

Special notice

A 10% Goods and Services tax (G.S.T) will be charged on the Buyer's Premium on all lots in this sale.

Lot Essay

The sideboard tables are designed in the elegant 'antique' manner introduced around 1770 by Robert Adam, court architect to George III. The fine figured mahogany tops are richly fretted with an entwined ribbon-guilloche, their frames are flowered with 'Apollo' sunflowered paterae, while their plinth supported and 'herm' tapering legs are antique fluted and reed enriched.
Their architecture and ornament, including the ribbon-guilloche moulding, relates to that of hall chairs designed about 1770 for Harewood House, Yorkshire, by the St. Martin's Lane cabinet-maker Thomas Chippendale (d. 1779), (see C. Gilbert Thomas Chippendale", London, 1978).
The Harvey family moved to Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire in 1680 and remained there until it was sold in 1934. It was later destroyed by fire in 1937.

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