ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, SYCAMORE, BURR YEW AND AMBOYNA PEMBROKE TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The twin-flap rectangular top centered by an oval with trailing foliate angles, the frieze with a drawer on square tapering legs headed by oval panels with block feet and leather casters, losses to veneer, previously with handles, losses to molding of feet, molding of top previously ebonized, underside of drawer incribed E974 in yellow chalk
27 in. (68.5 cm.) high, 28 in. (71 cm.) wide, 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep

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Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

Lot Essay

The delicate tendril-form marquetry, the use of burr-yew veneers, and ebonised borders found on this pembroke table are stylistically typical of the work of the Broad Street cabinet-makers Mayhew and Ince. Similar free-flowing tendrils appear on two commodes, each attributed to Mayhew and Ince and illustrated in L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, pp. 222-228, figs. 26 and 27. A related pembroke table possibly by Mayhew and Ince, with a central oval medallion of burr-yew within a marquetry surround and characteristic wyverns, was sold in these Rooms, 17 October 2003, lot 222.

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