Lot Essay
The doric-triglyphed foot features on a Director-style pembroke table invoiced in 1756 for Dumfries House, Scotland, by Samuel Smith (d. circa 1770) of Compton Street, as a 'mahogany nettwood Breakfast Table with a draw....¨3.3.0' (see: C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, fig. 401)