A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED AND EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED AND EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular breakfront top with a three-quarter brass rail, above five mahogany-lined frieze drawers, square tapering panelled legs headed by rectangular panels and pinched necks, on lion paw feet, two baluster uprights on the gallery replaced
41½ in. (105.5 cm.) high, including gallery; 88½ in. (225 cm.) wide; 31 in. (79 cm.) deep

Provenance

Possibly Andrew Gilchrist Esq., Norwood, Moor Park Avenue, Preston, Lancashire, 1905 (according to a card found in the drawer).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 October 1991, lot 184.
Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 14 June 2001, lot 138.

Lot Essay

The dining-room sideboard-table, embellished with sunk-tablets framed by 'Etruscan' pearl springs, has paired and herm-tapered legs capped by French-fashioned hollowed capitals that relate to patterns in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793. While its bacchic lion-paw feet and tablet frieze relate to a pattern in his Cabinet Encyclopaedia, 1804, pl.11, the brass-inlay recalls the early l9th century Louis Quatorze fashion.

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