IN THE MANNER OF MAYHEW AND INCE, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III FIDDLEBACK MAHOGANY, SATNWOOD, BURR-YEW AND ROSEWOOD DRESSING-TABLE
IN THE MANNER OF MAYHEW AND INCE, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The serpentine top with canted corners and rosewood crossbanded edge, with three quarter-veneered sections each enclosing inset burr-yew ovals with crossbanded edges, incorporating a central hinged flap lacking its mirror, with flaps either side each enclosing a well, above a shaped frieze with three mahogany-lined drawers, one drawer previously with division, on cabriole legs inlaid with husks, with playing card to underside with illegible inscription
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 37¾ in. (96 cm.) wide; 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

McEwen family of Bardrochat and Marchmont.

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Lot Essay

This elegant dressing-table, a 'table toilette' in Parisian writing-table (bureau plat) form popularised by mid-18th century marchands merciers, is embellished in 1760s 'Roman' fashion with ribboned tablets and medallions; while poetic laurels festoons its truss-scrolled legs beneath trompe l'oeil 'antique' flutes. The Golden Square firm of Messrs Mayhew and Ince adopted the latter feature for the embellishment of rosewood commodes supplied in the late 1770s to the 4th Duke of Marlborough; while the marble-figured yew, which features in the medallions, was also popular with this firm (H. Roberts, 'Furniture for the 4th Duke of Marlborough', Furniture History, 1994, fig. 29).

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