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Lot Essay
The form of this games table is conceived in the 'French taste' of the 1770's, with its serpentine form, elegant cabriole leg and guilloche carved edge to the top. The ribbon-guilloche moulding relates to that of hall chairs designed about 1770 for Harewood House, Yorkshire, by the St. Martin's Lane cabinet-maker Thomas Chippendale (d. 1779) (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, vol. II, London, 1978, fig. 159). In addition, the rosette carving to the frieze and the bellflower or husk garlands to the caps of the legs closely follow Chippendale's style of decoration.
A table of this form also with a ribbon-guilloche carved edge was sold from The Collection of F.H.Reid, Christie's London, 16 November 1955, lot 204.
A number of distinguished pieces of case furniture dating from the third quarter of the eighteenth century are mounted with metalwork bearing the stamp of H. Tibats. Peter Thornton suggests that Tibats may have been based in Birmingham, perhaps as a rival to the rapidly expanding firm of Boulton and Fothergill (see P. Thornton, Furniture History, 1966, vol.II, pp.44-45, pl.XXII).
A table of this form also with a ribbon-guilloche carved edge was sold from The Collection of F.H.Reid, Christie's London, 16 November 1955, lot 204.
A number of distinguished pieces of case furniture dating from the third quarter of the eighteenth century are mounted with metalwork bearing the stamp of H. Tibats. Peter Thornton suggests that Tibats may have been based in Birmingham, perhaps as a rival to the rapidly expanding firm of Boulton and Fothergill (see P. Thornton, Furniture History, 1966, vol.II, pp.44-45, pl.XXII).