拍品專文
The altar-pedestal 'loo' or centre table has its top marquetried in ebony in the Louis Quatorze manner with a Chinese figurative medallion and flowered ribbon border, and relates to marquetry tables associated with the celebrated dealer furniture maker of William IV's reign, Edward Holmes Baldock, who retired in 1841 (C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, vol II, London, 1978, no. 395). His tables may have been manufactured by Robert Black who was established at his Tottenham Court Road premises in 1820's as a 'Cabinet inlayer and Buhl Manufacturer'.