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Lot Essay
This lady's work table, japanned 'Grecian' bronze-black with gilt enrichments, is designed in the French/antique fashion popularised around 1800 by the engraved works of Thomas Sheraton (d. 1806). Its distinctive sabre legs recall seat-furniture by John Gee (d. 1824), who was listed from 1799 at 49 Wardour Street, Soho as 'Chairmaker and Turner to His Majesty'.
The handwritten label - which appears to date from the 19th Century - perhaps suggests it was supplied to a kinsman of the Iron Duke, the 1st Duke of Wellington. Interestingly, it stylistically concurs directly with the taste of Lord Gerald Wellesley, later 7th Duke of Wellington (d.1972), who assembled one of the pioneering collections of Regency furniture at his London house in Titchfield Terrace.
The handwritten label - which appears to date from the 19th Century - perhaps suggests it was supplied to a kinsman of the Iron Duke, the 1st Duke of Wellington. Interestingly, it stylistically concurs directly with the taste of Lord Gerald Wellesley, later 7th Duke of Wellington (d.1972), who assembled one of the pioneering collections of Regency furniture at his London house in Titchfield Terrace.