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Lot Essay
The grand Pembroke table, serving for a bedroom-apartment breakfast or writing-table, is conceived in the George III 'antique' fashion introduced around 1800, and epitomises the fashionable style with its Grecian-black and golden elements.
Its Pompeian columnar corners display reed-clustered tablets in the fashion of Egyptian striations and its legs are whorled with reeds. The latter feature on a Roman-style candelabrum executed at this period for the connoisseur Thomas Hope's London mansion museum and illustrated in his guide Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 alongside a Grecian desk displaying Egyptian reeded tablets (pls. 9 and 11). Although an unusual form, a similar example in the manner of Gillows was sold by Christopher Cowlin, Esq., Lyegrove, Badminton, Avon, Christie's house sale, 26 September 1988, lot 74.
The spiral reeding is a characteristic particularly found on furniture produced in Cork, Ireland, coupled with this broad form of table.
Its Pompeian columnar corners display reed-clustered tablets in the fashion of Egyptian striations and its legs are whorled with reeds. The latter feature on a Roman-style candelabrum executed at this period for the connoisseur Thomas Hope's London mansion museum and illustrated in his guide Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 alongside a Grecian desk displaying Egyptian reeded tablets (pls. 9 and 11). Although an unusual form, a similar example in the manner of Gillows was sold by Christopher Cowlin, Esq., Lyegrove, Badminton, Avon, Christie's house sale, 26 September 1988, lot 74.
The spiral reeding is a characteristic particularly found on furniture produced in Cork, Ireland, coupled with this broad form of table.