CIRCA 1765, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

細節

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE
CIRCA 1765, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE
With a double-sided central frieze drawer flanked and four further frieze drawers on chamfered square tapering legs with block feet, previously with caps and castors
31 in. (79 cm.) high; 72 in. (183 cm.) wide; 47 in. (119.5 cm.) deep

來源

Probably Dunskey House, Wigtownshire.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The library table's 'antique' plinth-supported and herm-tapered legs relate to a 1759 pattern published in the third edition of Thomas Chippendale's, Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director, 1762 (pl.117); while its Roman-medallion handle-plates also relate to a pattern adopted by the St. Martin's Lane cabinet-maker Thomas Chippendale (d.1779) for a large desk invoiced in 1771 for Nostell Priory, Yorkshire (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, fig. 208). This leg form, with fitted casters, also appears on Chippendale's 1774 dressing-table executed in beautifully figured mahogany for Paxton, Scotland (Gilbert ibid, fig. 425). It is possible that this table was originally supplied to Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Bart (d.1787), a partner in Sir William Forbes and James Hunter's bank. It may have come from Dunskey House, Wigtownshire.