Lot 88
88
A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED POLYCHROME-JAPANNED AND SIMULATED-ROSEWOOD CENTRE TABLES
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A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED POLYCHROME-JAPANNED AND SIMULATED-ROSEWOOD CENTRE TABLES

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A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED POLYCHROME-JAPANNED AND SIMULATED-ROSEWOOD CENTRE TABLES
Each with a rounded rectangular top decorated with birds and flowers, above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer, on open lyre end-supports, joined by a turned baluster stretcher, on castors, one drawer inscribed in chalk 'FO96', lacking five foot paterae, restorations, one pair of handles replaced, the bases redecorated
27½ in. (69.5 cm.) high; 23¼ in. (59 cm.) wide; 17¼ in. (44 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to George William, 7th Earl of Coventry (1758-1831) for Croome Court, Worcestershire and by descent with the Earls of Coventry.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The tops of these decorative tables are japanned in trompe l'oeil lacquer, with exotic birds perched in flowering shrubs in Chinese gardens, and match the fashionable tea-trays popularised by firms such as Jennens & Bettridge of Birmingham, who in 1816 took over Henry Clay's Birmingham premises (Y. Jones, Georgian & Victorian Japanned wares of the West Midlands, Wolverhampton, 1982). While their trompe-l'oeil black rosewood frames, with lyre-scrolled trestles enriched with flowered brass paterae, relate to the French/antique style popularised around 1800 by furniture pattern-books issued by Thomas Sheraton (d. 1803).

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