.jpg?w=1)
Lot Essay
The sideboard-table's elegant 'Roman' form, with bowed front and paired and taper-hermed legs inlaid with laurel-festoons, relate to patterns published in Messrs. A. Hepplewhite's, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. This table's inlaid medallions of rich marble-figured mahogany was also a feature of furniture manufactured at this period by Messrs. Gillow of London and Lancaster.
Sharpham was bought in 1841 by Richard Durant who invested considerably in improving the area and built a new inn, the Durant Arms. His unmarried daughter, Elizabeth, who was born in Epping Forest in 1831, was recorded as living in the house in the 1891 census. The house was restored by Major and Mrs. Brian Andrews in the 1940s and is discussed by M. Binney, 'Sharpham House, Devon', Country Life, 17 April and 24 April 1969 (pp. 952-955 and 1014-1017).
A commode and a pair of George II style white-painted pier tables from the same source, also from Sharpham, were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 29 November 2001, lot 147 and 2 May 2002, lot 110.
Sharpham was bought in 1841 by Richard Durant who invested considerably in improving the area and built a new inn, the Durant Arms. His unmarried daughter, Elizabeth, who was born in Epping Forest in 1831, was recorded as living in the house in the 1891 census. The house was restored by Major and Mrs. Brian Andrews in the 1940s and is discussed by M. Binney, 'Sharpham House, Devon', Country Life, 17 April and 24 April 1969 (pp. 952-955 and 1014-1017).
A commode and a pair of George II style white-painted pier tables from the same source, also from Sharpham, were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 29 November 2001, lot 147 and 2 May 2002, lot 110.