Lot 191
191
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE, the circular top inlaid with a foliate arabesque border above a plain frieze with four mahogany-lined panelled frieze drawers between channelled paterae, upon a concave-fronted triangular spreading scrolled plinth and further platform base and stiff-leaf- carved scroll feet, restorations, the locks stamped G.R./PATENT beneath a crown

Details
A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE, the circular top inlaid with a foliate arabesque border above a plain frieze with four mahogany-lined panelled frieze drawers between channelled paterae, upon a concave-fronted triangular spreading scrolled plinth and further platform base and stiff-leaf- carved scroll feet, restorations, the locks stamped G.R./PATENT beneath a crown
48in. (122cm.) diam.; 29½in. (75cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby's London, 5 May 1989, lot 126

Lot Essay

The spreading solid triangular support for circular tables first appeared in England in the designs of the antiquarian and connoisseur Thomas Hope. The design for one of these is illustrated in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl.39. The table itself is illustrated in C.Musgrave, Regency Furniture, London, 1961, pl.13

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