Lot Essay
Designed in the French-Grecian style popularised by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 and G. Smith, Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808, its scrolled supports were intended to match those of scissor-action card tables placed in the window-piers of the Regency withdrawing-room.
A pair of card tables of this model is in the Music Room at Buckingham Palace and another was sold in these Rooms, 21 November 1985, lot 82. A sofa table with almost identical base, from the collection of the late Victoria, Lady Sackville, is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1954, rev.ed., vol. III, p.269, fig.17.
A pair of card tables of this model is in the Music Room at Buckingham Palace and another was sold in these Rooms, 21 November 1985, lot 82. A sofa table with almost identical base, from the collection of the late Victoria, Lady Sackville, is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1954, rev.ed., vol. III, p.269, fig.17.