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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY PEMBROKE TABLE
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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY PEMBROKE TABLE

LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY PEMBROKE TABLE
LATE 18TH CENTURY
The oval top centred with a patera flanked by ribbon-tied olive branches and decorated on the sides with urns and foliage, above a frieze drawer, on square tapering legs terminating in castors, with a rectangular paper label inscribed 'From Culloden House a 'Pembroke' table 1766 By Chippendale. So called as first ordered & he made (...) wide of 10 Earl Pembroke -1756m- daughter of 3rd Duke of Marlborough', restorations to the top, the edge of the top previously ebonised
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 20 in. (51 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep
Provenance
The Forbes family, Culloden House, Inverness-shire.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

A pattern for a related Pembroke-table, with central medallion wreathed in foliage, appears in the 1784 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillow of London and Lancaster (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995 fig. 61).

According to the label, this table may have been sold from Culloden House, Inverness-shire A. Fraser & Co. house sale, held on 21-26 July 1897. Culloden House was the seat of the Forbes family from 1626 until the house's sale in 1897. During the Jacobite rising of 1745-46, the house was requisitioned by Bonnie Prince Charlie as his lodgings and Headquarters. The Jacobite's defeat at the hands of the 'Butcher' Duke of Cumberland, brother of George II, at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746, took place nearby.

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