IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM POCOCK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY EXTENDING DINING-TABLE
IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM POCOCK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Comprising two rounded rectangular end-sections which divide to accomodate two further leaves; the rounded rectangular top crossbanded and inlaid with a boxwood line, on a central support with four upspringing arched supports, on four downswept legs with brass paw caps and castors, one leg spliced, six clips
28¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 101¼ in. (257 cm.) long, fully extended; 42 in. (106.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 17 April 1997, lot 175.

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Lot Essay

An extending dining-table on 'one pillar and claw' of this pattern featured in a broadsheet advertisement issued in 1814 by William Pocock (d.1835), cabinet-maker of Southampton Street. The pattern illustrated was for a Pocock 'Sympathetic self-acting dining-table'. A 'sympathetic' dining-table was patented in 1805 by Pocock which also incorporated an extra leaf within the pull-out frame (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 45 and 373, figs. 731-734).

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