A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, ROSEWOOD, MARQUETRY AND PENWORK PEMBROKE TABLE

CIRCA 1780

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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, ROSEWOOD, MARQUETRY AND PENWORK PEMBROKE TABLE
CIRCA 1780
The oval top centered by a fan medallion within a vine border, flanked by a pair of hinged rounded flaps, above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer decorated with bellflower swags, similarly decorated to reverse, over square tapering legs further decorated with bellflowers, on brass caps and casters, top of drawer with retailer's stamp JOHN WATSON/8 NEW OXFORD ST WC, repairs to two feet
28 in. (72 cm.) high, 38½ in. wide, open, 19½ in. (50 cm.) closed, 28 in. (71 cm.) deep

拍品專文

The Pembroke table, with its laurel-wreathed border framing a poetic 'Apollo' sunflower in a shell-scalloped medallion, is embellished in the 1770s Roman fashion.

Among the cabinet-makers who were skilled in such marquetry at this period was the Dublin cabinet-maker William Moore, who had trained with the London firm of John Mayhew and William Ince, also specialist inlayers. Related inlay on a commode attributed to Moore is illustrated in F. Lewis Hinckley, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and Regency Furniture, New York, 1987, fig. 337. A pembroke table by George Simpson, with a drapery-swagged frieze and medallion-inlaid top, is illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Market London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 425, figs. 849 & 850.