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拍品專文
These distinctive card tables reflect the renewed fashion for the Gothic taste at the end of the 18th century, which was promoted by the court architect James Wyatt (1746-1813), among others. Wyatt's design for a pulpit at Litchfield Cathedral from 1783 illustrates a similarly refined interpretation of gothic tracery arches and cluster-column legs.
A side table of this pattern, certainly by the same maker and possible en suite, was sold The Property of a Company, Christie's, London, 29 March 1984, lot 188 (illustrated in G. Beard and J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Oxford, 1987, p. 249, fig. 4). The table was with Partridge, London by 1905 and illustrated in F. S. Robinson, English Furniture, London, 1905, pl. CI.
A side table of this pattern, certainly by the same maker and possible en suite, was sold The Property of a Company, Christie's, London, 29 March 1984, lot 188 (illustrated in G. Beard and J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Oxford, 1987, p. 249, fig. 4). The table was with Partridge, London by 1905 and illustrated in F. S. Robinson, English Furniture, London, 1905, pl. CI.