THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY, SYCAMORE AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The rounded rectangular top with an ebonised chequer-banded and amaranth edge, inset with a frieze of flowers and a central panel with a spray of flowers and butterflies, on turned legs joined by turned stretchers, the underside inscribed in pen 'Rawlins', restorations to the marquetry, the top apparently original
28½ in. (72 cm.) high; 29 in. (73.5 cm.) wide; 18¼ in. (46 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The table, with inlaid tablet on fine Pompeian pillars in the George III antique fashion, would have served in the 1770's as a bedroom apartment work writing- table. A related drawer-fitted table, with flower sprig inlaid in trompe l'oeil beside a book, needlecase, and flute, formed part of the furnishings introduced to Uppark, Sussex around 1770 (photographed in The Saloon in 1910, see C. Rowell, Uppark, National Trust Guide, 1995, p. 59).

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