A GEORGE III PLUMWOOD DRESSING-AND WRITING-TABLE with serpentine hinged top inlaid with diagonally-quartered panels of plum bordered with rosewood and inlaid with lines, the waved shaped frieze similarly inlaid, enclosing a divided and lidded interior including scent bottles, ink-wells and an easel mirror on delicate mahogany cabriole legs of square section, with a circular label inscribed Thursby Pelham and a typed label PHILLIPS OF HITCHIN LTD

細節

A GEORGE III PLUMWOOD DRESSING-AND WRITING-TABLE with serpentine hinged top inlaid with diagonally-quartered panels of plum bordered with rosewood and inlaid with lines, the waved shaped frieze similarly inlaid, enclosing a divided and lidded interior including scent bottles, ink-wells and an easel mirror on delicate mahogany cabriole legs of square section, with a circular label inscribed Thursby Pelham and a typed label PHILLIPS OF HITCHIN LTD
20½in. (52cm.) wide; 15¼in. (38.5cm.) deep; 27½in. (70cm.) high

來源

James Thursby-Pelham, Esq.

出版

O. Brackett, An Encyclopaedia of English Furniture, London, 1927, p.266
P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., London, 1954, vol. III, p.229, fig. 17

拍品專文

A satinwood table of very similar design was sold at Sotheby's London, 6 December 1968, lot 126

The shape corresponds closely with that of the tulipwood writing-table supplied in 1766 by Thomas Chippendale to Sir Rowland Winn at Nostell Priory for #5 15s 0d (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, fig. 436)