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Lot Essay
William Jones', Gentleman or Builder's Companion, 1739, issued patterns for related marble-topped pier-tables in the Roman manner promoted by the architect William Kent (d. 1748). These also featured antique flutes, flower-festooned masks and shells as well as acanthus scrolls issuing from the volutes of serpentined legs which terminated in paws. A number of these elements appear on a sideboard-table that was formerly at Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire (R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1977 p. 586. fig. 32)
Sharpham was bought in 1841 by Richard Durant who invested considerably in improving the area and built a new inn, the Durant Arms. His unmarried daughter, Elizabeth, who was born in Epping Forest in 1831, was recorded as living in the house in the 1891 census. The house was restored by Major and Mrs. Brian Andrews in the 1940s, and is discussed by M. Binney, 'Sharpham House, Devon', Country Life, April 17 and April 24, 1969 (pp. 952-955 and 1014-1017).
A commode from the same source, also from Sharpham with identical label attached to the reverse, but fully inscribed 'SHARPHAM', was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 29 November 2001, lot 147 (£23,500).
Sharpham was bought in 1841 by Richard Durant who invested considerably in improving the area and built a new inn, the Durant Arms. His unmarried daughter, Elizabeth, who was born in Epping Forest in 1831, was recorded as living in the house in the 1891 census. The house was restored by Major and Mrs. Brian Andrews in the 1940s, and is discussed by M. Binney, 'Sharpham House, Devon', Country Life, April 17 and April 24, 1969 (pp. 952-955 and 1014-1017).
A commode from the same source, also from Sharpham with identical label attached to the reverse, but fully inscribed 'SHARPHAM', was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 29 November 2001, lot 147 (£23,500).