CIRCA 1820, WITH LATER OUTER LEAVES

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George V's breakfast table
A Regency mahogany circular extending breakfast table
Circa 1820, with later outer leaves
The rosewood crossbanded tilt-top, with four later outer leaves, on a turned column with acanthus carved hipped splayed legs and paw feet, the frieze with loper supports, the underside stamped twice with the initial 'G' beneath Prince of Wales feathers, the castors stamped 'Copes Patent', the rosewood crossbanding and extending mechanism apparently original, originally with four removable screw-in legs to add further support when the extra leaves were added, with a later paper property label for Princess Margaret
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 63 in. (160 cm.) wide

Provenance

H.M. King George V (1865-1936) when Prince of Wales.

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Lot Essay

The breakfast/dining table, with later concentric extending leaves, has its pillar supported on a palm-flowered, truss-scrolled and Grecian-scrolled 'claw' terminating in Bacchic lion-paws, and reflects the robust George IV antique manner popularised by T. King's, The Modern Style of Cabinet Work Exemplified, 1829. Its Birmingham manufactured castors by Cope were of a type praised in R. Loudon's, Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1839 (p.325 ) because 'the more pressure there is on it, the easier it works'.

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