Lot 78
78
A GEORGE III GREEN AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED PEMBROKE TABLE with oval twin-flap top inset with papier-mâché centred by an oval depicting Venus and Cupid surmounted by a classical urn suspended overall with swags above Cupid's quiver and a lion-mask, the end-sections decorated with a trophy of musical instruments, on a brown ground within black foliate border, above a frieze drawer adorned with garlanded swags, on turned tapering reeded legs headed by stylised anthemion panels, on turned feet with brass caps and casters, restorations, probably previously with inset borders to edge

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A GEORGE III GREEN AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED PEMBROKE TABLE with oval twin-flap top inset with papier-mâché centred by an oval depicting Venus and Cupid surmounted by a classical urn suspended overall with swags above Cupid's quiver and a lion-mask, the end-sections decorated with a trophy of musical instruments, on a brown ground within black foliate border, above a frieze drawer adorned with garlanded swags, on turned tapering reeded legs headed by stylised anthemion panels, on turned feet with brass caps and casters, restorations, probably previously with inset borders to edge
32¼in.(82cm.)wide; 28½in.(72.5cm.)high; 21in.(53.5cm.)deep

Lot Essay

Henry Clay (d. 1812) of Birmingham, after opening premises in King Street, Covent Garden in the 1780s, was appointed 'Japanner in Ordinary' to King George III and George, Prince of Wales. He specialised in decorative items in papier mâché, or 'paper-work', such as tea-caddies and coffee-trays, and supplied a related painted breakfast or Pembroke table for the dressing-room at Osterley Park House in the mid 1770s (see; M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1972 no. J/5)

An extremely similar oval Pembroke table was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 9 July 1992, lot 38

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