Lot Essay
This breakfast-table, with enlarged Pembroke table flaps, has a columnar pedestal, whose Grecian hollow-sided altar plinth, flowered tablets and reeded Grecian feet reflect the George III antique style of around 1800. With its ribbon-banded and richly figured mahogany veneer, it is typical of the work of Messrs. Gillows and is likely to have been supplied together with the chairs for Thomas Langford-Brooke's Dining-Room