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Lot Essay
The simple elegant design of this table together with the distinctive handle pattern and superb quality timber relates it to the furniture supplied by Thomas Chippendale for the 5th Earl of Dumfries at Dumfries House, Scotland in the 1760s and Ninian Home for Paxton Hall, Scotland from 1774. A breakfast table and shaving table supplied to Dumfries House in 1759 both feature the same pattern handles (see C. Gilbert, The Life and Times of Thomas Chippendale, New York, 1978, vol.II, p.219, figs.399-400 and p.252, fig.460).
A dressing table in the collection at Temple Newsam House in Leeds is of virtually the same form as this table with the addition of a fretwork gallery joining the concave shelf to the case. These two pieces exhibit the same fine details of construction including the gentle curve to the inside edge of the feet (see C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, London, 1978, vol.II, p.332, no.416). Another dressing table that warrants comparison is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (illustrated in M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1972, p.160, no.T/1).
A dressing table in the collection at Temple Newsam House in Leeds is of virtually the same form as this table with the addition of a fretwork gallery joining the concave shelf to the case. These two pieces exhibit the same fine details of construction including the gentle curve to the inside edge of the feet (see C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, London, 1978, vol.II, p.332, no.416). Another dressing table that warrants comparison is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (illustrated in M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1972, p.160, no.T/1).