A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE with pierced, fretwork-galleried rectangular top above a waved apron, upon cluster- column legs headed by floral patera and joined at the imbricated waist blocks by a pierced, waved X-shaped stretcher surmounted by a later gadrooned urn finial, upon floral patera-carved block feet and leather castors, with label to the underside to the top HOPSON & SON'S/Depository Mr G.u.. Esq NEWBURY and with further label ROYAL COUNTY DE... READING C. & G.AYRES, Propr... the top re-supported, extensive replacements to the fretwork gallery, restorations

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE with pierced, fretwork-galleried rectangular top above a waved apron, upon cluster- column legs headed by floral patera and joined at the imbricated waist blocks by a pierced, waved X-shaped stretcher surmounted by a later gadrooned urn finial, upon floral patera-carved block feet and leather castors, with label to the underside to the top HOPSON & SON'S/Depository Mr G.u.. Esq NEWBURY and with further label ROYAL COUNTY DE... READING C. & G.AYRES, Propr... the top re-supported, extensive replacements to the fretwork gallery, restorations
35in. (89cm.) wide; 39in. (73.5cm.) high; 22½in. (57cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Designed in the picturesque anglo-chinois style popularised by Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director 1754; this tea-table's fretted gallery, scalloped apron and fanciful vase-capped stretcher relates to his China table pattern plate XXXIV. The pattern for the flowered-ribbon gallery was published in John Crunden's Joyner and Cabinet-Maker's Darling, 1765, plate 7, which the paired cluster-column supports relate to those of circular tea-tables in the Louis XVI manner of the 1780's (see: Christie's London, 10 June 1993, lot 26)

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