Lot 50
50
REMOVED FROM LAKE HOUSE, NEAR SALISBURY, WILTSHIRE (Lots 50 - 54)
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE in two sections, the rectangular top with two hinged opening flaps enclosing an interior, the front with three simulated drawers, the base with chamfered square legs, metal trellis-filled sides and panelled back joined by a concave-fronted fretwork galleried undertier, on block feet, two feet lacking sections

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE in two sections, the rectangular top with two hinged opening flaps enclosing an interior, the front with three simulated drawers, the base with chamfered square legs, metal trellis-filled sides and panelled back joined by a concave-fronted fretwork galleried undertier, on block feet, two feet lacking sections
29in. (73.5cm.) wide closed; 32½in. (82.5cm.) high; 22in. (56cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Patterns for fanciful 'Lady's' Dressing Tables, in the George III French 'picturesque' style, with folding 'toilet' tops applied to frames of 'Breakfast tables' form with a hollow-fronted undertier enclosed by wire-panelled sides, were first engraved by Messrs. William Ince and John Mayhew, cabinet-makers of Golden Square, Soho, in their Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, pl. XXXVIII. Their patterns included plain wire mesh in place of the interlaced 'Chinese' trellis pattern of this table, and a 'Chinese'-fret balustrade on the undertier in place of this 'Gothic' ribbon-guilloche

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