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拍品專文
Almost certainly either this lot or lot 837 recorded as the 'Wainscott Camp Table -- 3.0.0' in Samuel Soper's Invoice to 'His Grace the Duke of Bedford', dated March 9, 1814.
This type of butler's tray-stand or voider, of folding camp-stool form, was illustrated in J.C. Loudon's, Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farmhouse and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1833, nos.596 and 597. The Endsleigh stand, and its larger pair (Lot 837), were listed in 1839 in the 'Servants Room adjoining the Dining Room', as:- '2 tray stands'. It bears the label of the Cabinet-Maker and Camp Furniture Maker, Samuel Soper who is recorded at Bedford Street, Bedford Circus, Exeter from 1791-1816 in G.Beard and C.Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, FHS, 1986, p. 839.
This type of butler's tray-stand or voider, of folding camp-stool form, was illustrated in J.C. Loudon's, Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farmhouse and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1833, nos.596 and 597. The Endsleigh stand, and its larger pair (Lot 837), were listed in 1839 in the 'Servants Room adjoining the Dining Room', as:- '2 tray stands'. It bears the label of the Cabinet-Maker and Camp Furniture Maker, Samuel Soper who is recorded at Bedford Street, Bedford Circus, Exeter from 1791-1816 in G.Beard and C.Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, FHS, 1986, p. 839.