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Lot Essay
The abundantly flowered table is inlaid with a central bouquet medallion within a flower-wreathed band, while its outer ribbon-band symbolises Roman virtue. It displays four pearl-tied flowers of Roman acanthus with whorled scrolls inhabited by serpent-attacking eagles.
It is fitted with ceramic castors manufactured from around 1840 by Cope and Collinson of Birmingham.
Known at the time as a 'Fancy Loo Table', its rich inlay harmonises with the fashion for brightly coloured chintzes. This inlay together with its scrolled tripod pillar and acanthus-wrapped 'claw', relates to the Louis Quatorze style illustrated in Henry Whitaker's Practical Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Treasury of Designs, 1847. He advertised 'Original designs in the Grecian, Italian, Renaissance, Louis-quatorze, Gothic, Tudor and Elizabethan styles' (E.T. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, pp. 483 and 486).
It is fitted with ceramic castors manufactured from around 1840 by Cope and Collinson of Birmingham.
Known at the time as a 'Fancy Loo Table', its rich inlay harmonises with the fashion for brightly coloured chintzes. This inlay together with its scrolled tripod pillar and acanthus-wrapped 'claw', relates to the Louis Quatorze style illustrated in Henry Whitaker's Practical Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Treasury of Designs, 1847. He advertised 'Original designs in the Grecian, Italian, Renaissance, Louis-quatorze, Gothic, Tudor and Elizabethan styles' (E.T. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, pp. 483 and 486).