Lot Essay
This sideboard-table is designed in the George II 'picturesque' or 'Modern' style illustrated in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754. With its simple top, fret-railed brackets and its rectilinear pilaster legs champher-cut on the inside angles, it corresponds to Chippendale's 'Sideboard Table' pattern dated 1753 and published as pl. XXXV.