CIRCA 1775, IN THE MANNER OF MARTIN CARLIN, PROBABLY ADAPTED FROM A TABLE A BRODER WITH A LATER TOP AND SOME REMOUNTING

The base of this table is of identical design to that sold from the collection of Lord Revelstoke at Christie's London, 28 June 1893, lot 287. The Revelstoke table - whose circular top was inset with eight Sèvres porcelain plaques around a central stem which supported the broder drum - came from the collection of the Hon. Miss Eden and, purportedly, that of Marie-Antoinette. Although the latter provenance is all too often a 19th century embellishment, Miss Eden was a direct descendant of the diplomat William Eden, created Lord Auckland in 1793, who received Sèvres porcelain and other lavish gifts from Louis XVI in 1787. A table by Carlin in the Jones Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, reputedly a direct gift to Lady Auckland from Marie-Antoinette in 1786, was also mounted with Sèvres plaques dated 1778 (Catalogue of the Jones Collection, no. 43, pl.27).