Lot 11
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TEA-TABLE
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TEA-TABLE

CIRCA 1760

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TEA-TABLE
CIRCA 1760
The rectangular top with pierced Chinese-fret gallery, above a plain frieze with elongated C-scroll apron, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus and cabachons, on foliate reserves, with scrolled feet on rockwork stands
28¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 30¼ in. (77 cm.) wide; 20½ in. (52 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The Chinese-railed tea-table is designed in the George II 'Modern' fashion and relates to 'China Tables' illustrated in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754. Its serpentined truss legs enriched with bubbled cartouches and Roman acanthus relate to a Director parlour chair pattern (pl. 14) while the rail relates to a pattern of 'Frets for Friezes' attributed to Chippendale and published by a Society of Upholsterers in Genteel Household Furniture in the Present Taste, 1760, pt. III, pl. 106. A related table was formerly at Charlton Park, Kent (E. Lennox-Boyd (ed.), Masterpieces of English Furniture: The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, no. 19, p. 201 & pl. 47).

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