Lot Essay
This piece resembles certain parts of designs for 'Fire Screens', 'Stands for Figures & China Jars' and 'Candle Stands', published in John Mayhew and William Ince, The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, pls. L, LI, LXVII, as well as a design for the base of a triangular 'Card Table' in the same work, Pl. LIII.
A comparably elaborate example is perhaps that supplied by the firm of Mayhew and Ince to the 6th Earl of Coventry at Croome Court, Worcestershire in 1767, invoiced as 'a very neat Carved Stand for Bason & Ewer, of Redwood and Varnish'd' for which they charged #14 17s. The stand was for a Sèvres ewer and basin that Lord Coventry had purchased earlier in 1767 in Paris, probably from the celebrated marchand-mercier Poirier, from whom he made several purchases
A comparably elaborate example is perhaps that supplied by the firm of Mayhew and Ince to the 6th Earl of Coventry at Croome Court, Worcestershire in 1767, invoiced as 'a very neat Carved Stand for Bason & Ewer, of Redwood and Varnish'd' for which they charged #14 17s. The stand was for a Sèvres ewer and basin that Lord Coventry had purchased earlier in 1767 in Paris, probably from the celebrated marchand-mercier Poirier, from whom he made several purchases