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拍品專文
A library-table of this form, with revolving altar-drum on commode-pedestal, has been identified with Thomas Chippendale's furnishing of either the library at Melbourne House, Piccadilly or Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire in the early 1770s (sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 9 July l998, lot 80). Chippendale supplied an oval table of this form with 'a place in the middle for papers & covered with black leather' to Lansdowne House, London (C. Gilbert, The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. I, p. 254).
A closely related library table with paneled base and ogee bracket feet was sold, the property of a Gentleman, Christie's, London, 15 November 1990, lot 108 and is illustrated in C. Claxton-Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 110. Another virtually identical to this example was sold, the property of the Borojan Trust, Christie's, Lodon, 25 November 1976, lot 117. Others similar with cut-corner panels and plinth bases include an example from the collection of the late Mrs. Robert Tritton, Godmersham Park, Christie's House sale, 6-9 June 1983, lot 196; another from Croxteth Hall, Liverpool, sold Christie's house sale, 17-20 September 1973, lot 136; the property of a Lady, Christie's, London, 29 June 1978, lot 140 and the property of a Gentleman, Christie's, London, 19 November 1987, lot 110. A further example is illustrated by Herbert Cescinski in his English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, New York, 1968, p. 357 where it is noted that 'at one time these tables were fairly common in the stewards' rooms in large country houses. They are now very rare.'
A closely related library table with paneled base and ogee bracket feet was sold, the property of a Gentleman, Christie's, London, 15 November 1990, lot 108 and is illustrated in C. Claxton-Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 110. Another virtually identical to this example was sold, the property of the Borojan Trust, Christie's, Lodon, 25 November 1976, lot 117. Others similar with cut-corner panels and plinth bases include an example from the collection of the late Mrs. Robert Tritton, Godmersham Park, Christie's House sale, 6-9 June 1983, lot 196; another from Croxteth Hall, Liverpool, sold Christie's house sale, 17-20 September 1973, lot 136; the property of a Lady, Christie's, London, 29 June 1978, lot 140 and the property of a Gentleman, Christie's, London, 19 November 1987, lot 110. A further example is illustrated by Herbert Cescinski in his English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, New York, 1968, p. 357 where it is noted that 'at one time these tables were fairly common in the stewards' rooms in large country houses. They are now very rare.'