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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN FOUR LOTS FROM FULBECK HALL, LINCOLNSHIRE (LOTS 350-353)

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE

SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Details

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The rounded rectangular moulded hinged top enclosing a fitted interior of compartments around a hinged ratcheted green baize-lined surface on one side and a mirror on the other, the right end with a small later-lined drawer, on club legs with pad feet, the end-drawer originally hinged, the interior compartments slightly rearranged
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 32¾ in. (83 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

The late Mary Fry, neé Fane, Fulbeck Hall, Lincolnshire; Sotheby's, Olympia, 8 October 2002, lot 312.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

This pier table, with concealed bureau dressing fitments, is designed in the elegant George II 'Roman' fashion as featured on the 1730s cabinet-maker's trade-sheet of Thomas Potter (C. Gilbert and T. Murdoch, John Channon and brass-inlaid furniture, New Haven and London, 1993, p. 19, fig. 11). The chest's hinged, column-cornered and reed-moulded top is raised on truss-scrolled and tapering columnar legs terminating in round reed-banded 'toe' pads. While its hinged writing-drawer has been adapted, it retains its hinged dressing-mirror. It is likely to have been amongst the furnishings commissioned by The Honourable Francis Fane (d. 1758) following the completion of Fulbeck, his Lincolnshire Roman villa built in the early 1730s.

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