CIRCA 1830

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A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY SERVING TABLE
Circa 1830
The large raised mirror back with a lotus leaf cornice above acanthus leaf corbels and lotus flower panels, the lower section with a rectangular inverted breakfront gadrooned top above an adapted central frieze drawer divided by flowerhead panels, the right frieze with a secret compartment, on monumental scrolled supports and plinth bases, the underside inscribed with two names Jackson and Bailley
108 in. (274 cm.) high; 109 in. (277 cm.) wide; 36½ in. (93 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Great Parlour, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham.

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Lot Essay

The robustly carved and plinth-supported sideboard-table, with high mirrored back, is conceived in the George IV French/antique or Grecian fashion popularised by George Smith's, Cabinet-maker and Upholsterers Guide, 1826. The table, with reed-gadrooned top and stepped frieze enriched with palm-flowered tablets, is supported on paired pilasters, whose truss-scrolled volutes are wrapped by Roman acanthus; while the pilasters supporting the mirrors palm-flowered cornice are similarly enriched with acanthus-wrapped trusses. The sideboard furnished the Great Parlour that had been added by Horace Walpole in the 1750s to the villa at Strawberry Hill, Middlesex. It may have been introduced by the 6th Earl Waldegrave (d. 1835) or by George Granville Vernon Harcourt, M.P. (d. 1861) following his marriage in 1847 to Frances Elizabeth Anne, Lady Waldegrave (d.1879).

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