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拍品专文
This type of table worked in the 'boule' fashion originates from a small group of emigrant cabinet-makers attracted to London during the reign of George II. One known maker to have produced such tables is Moravian cabinet-maker and embellisher of musical instruments Johann Friedrich Hintz (d. 1776). Hintz (also spelt Hinz, Hints and Hinds) traded at 'The Porcupine', Newport Street, and on May 22, 1738 advertised a sale of 'A Choice Tea-Boards, etc. all curiously [finely wrought] made and inlaid with fine Figures of Brass and Mother of Pearl. They will be sold at a very reasonable rate, the maker Frederick Hintz, designing soon to go abroad' (G.Beard and C.Gilbert, eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 434).
Twenty-five 'pillar and claw' tables with engraved-brass inlay and lobed, dished or scalloped tray-top design have been recorded to date (see C. Gilbert and T.Murdoch, 'Channon Revisited', Furniture History, 1994, p.75). While the number of conjoined circular depressions to the top can vary from eight to ten or even twelve, the form and style of the stands vary indefinitely and are often associated. The decorative inlay on this table with its budding flowers and splayed leaves is most comparable to a table sold from The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Saul P. Steinberg, Sotheby's New York, 26 May 2000, lot 196, ($280,750). Other similar examples include a table sold in these Rooms, 30 April 1997, lot 69, and numerous illustrated in C.Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, Eighteenth Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, 1983, pp.288-289, and C.Gilbert and T.Murdoch, John Channon and Brass-Inlaid Furniture 1730-1760, 1993, pls. 144-156).
Twenty-five 'pillar and claw' tables with engraved-brass inlay and lobed, dished or scalloped tray-top design have been recorded to date (see C. Gilbert and T.Murdoch, 'Channon Revisited', Furniture History, 1994, p.75). While the number of conjoined circular depressions to the top can vary from eight to ten or even twelve, the form and style of the stands vary indefinitely and are often associated. The decorative inlay on this table with its budding flowers and splayed leaves is most comparable to a table sold from The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Saul P. Steinberg, Sotheby's New York, 26 May 2000, lot 196, ($280,750). Other similar examples include a table sold in these Rooms, 30 April 1997, lot 69, and numerous illustrated in C.Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, Eighteenth Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, 1983, pp.288-289, and C.Gilbert and T.Murdoch, John Channon and Brass-Inlaid Furniture 1730-1760, 1993, pls. 144-156).