Lot 86
86
AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAPLE AND BIRD'S-EYE MAPLE WORK TABLE with rounded rectangular top above a fitted mahogany-lined frieze drawer flanked by scroll-angles and gadrooned bosses, on twin tapering pierced end-supports headed by foliate scrolls, on platform bases joined by a turned lotus-carved stretcher, on downswept legs and foliate scroll feet, the underside of the drawer with stencil of TAPRELL HOLLAND & SON/UPHOLSTERERS & C/19 MARYLEBONE ..(STREET)/LONDON, CIRCA 1835-43, MINOR RESTORATIONS

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAPLE AND BIRD'S-EYE MAPLE WORK TABLE with rounded rectangular top above a fitted mahogany-lined frieze drawer flanked by scroll-angles and gadrooned bosses, on twin tapering pierced end-supports headed by foliate scrolls, on platform bases joined by a turned lotus-carved stretcher, on downswept legs and foliate scroll feet, the underside of the drawer with stencil of TAPRELL HOLLAND & SON/UPHOLSTERERS & C/19 MARYLEBONE ..(STREET)/LONDON, CIRCA 1835-43, MINOR RESTORATIONS
27IN. (68.5CM.) WIDE; 29IN. (74CM.) HIGH; 17IN. (43CM.) DEEP

Lot Essay

TAPRELL, HOLLAND AND SON. WAS THE NAME USED 1835-43 BY THE FIRM THAT BECAME HOLLAND AND SONS. IT WAS TO BE ONE OF THE GREAT FURNISHING FIRMS OF THE CENTURY. LITTLE IS KNOWN OF STEPHEN TAPRELL ALTHOUGH HE CAN PROBABLY BE IDENTIFIED WITH A SUBSCRIBER TO SHERATON'S CABINET DICTIONARY,1803. THE FIRM IS RECORDED AT THIS ADDRESS 1817-1851 (SEE: C.GILBERT AND G.BEARD EDS., THE DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH FURNITURE MAKERS, F.H.S., LEEDS, 1986, P.871)

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