AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS HOPE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE LEGS REPOSITIONED

With its palm-wrapped lion-monopodia this jardiniere relates to patterns for chimera-supported tripod tables published in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pls.XV and XXXII) and based on a drawing by Charles Heathcote Taham first published in 1799. One of a pair of tripod stands of this model formerly at Clumber and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, London, rev. edn., 1965, p.21, fig. 21.