AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLE

CIRCA 1760, SUPPLIED BY FRANCES ELKINS

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AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLE
CIRCA 1760, SUPPLIED BY FRANCES ELKINS
The later rectangular top above a blind fretwork frieze and pierced brackets, on eight square legs with blind fretwork fronts and backed with double ringed columns behind, with Christie's printed auction catalogue entry dated December 18, 1930
36½ in. (93 cm.) high, 106¼ in. (270 cm.) long, 30¼ in. (77 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale (Mrs. H. Minette Cramp, Newbury, Berkshire); Christie's, London, 18 December 1930, lot 130 (to 'Clifford' for 89gns 5 s).

Literature

A. O. Patterson, 'On the High Bluffs of Lake Forest near Chicago', Town and Country, 15 January 1934, pp. 24.
S. M. Salny, 'Historic Interiors: Frances Elkins. A Surviving Example of the Noted Designers Work', Architectural Digest, July 1980, p. 89.
S. M. Salny, 'Frances Elkins: A Forward-Looking Icon of European Chic and American Style', Architectural Digest (Interior Design Legends), January 2000, p. 167.
S. M. Salny, The Country Houses of David Adler, 2001, p. 140.
S. E. Cohen and S. S. Benjamin, North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburb 1890-1940, New York, 2004, p. 281.
S. M. Salny, Frances Elkins: Interior Design, 2005, p. 69.

Lot Essay

This impressive table design is derived from patterns for 'SideBoard Tables' published by Thomas Chippendale in his The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, such as pl. LVIII in the third edition of 1762. For plates LVI and LVII, Chippendale notes 'Two Designs of Side-Boards, with their Dimensions; but these vary according to the Bigness of the Rooms they stand in'. The present table would have been commissioned for a very grand room.

A table of similarly impressive size and format but uncarved was almost certainly supplied for Thomas Parker (d. 1795), 3rd Earl of Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire and sold by the late 7th Earl of Macclesfield, Christie's, London, 4 March 2002, lot 19.

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