A GEORGE III EBONY-STRUNG MAHOGANY AND PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD

ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW & INCE, CIRCA 1790

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A GEORGE III EBONY-STRUNG MAHOGANY AND PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD
ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW & INCE, CIRCA 1790
The fluted and oval patera frieze with central drawer flanked to the left by a deep zinc-lined cellarette drawer and to the right by two drawers, on fluted tapering square legs, the handles replaced, the feet tipped
36½ in. (93 cm.) high; 71 in. (180 cm.) wide; 27¼ in. (69 cm.) deep

Provenance

Probably Harry Rixson, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, where acquired on 20 July 1950, as an 'Adam Mahogany Sudeboard' (£125).

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Lot Essay

With its mottled 'plum-pudding' mahogany slab top and distinctive elongated 'Palmyrean' oval patera, this serving-table relates to Mayhew and Ince's documented oeuvre. Similar paterae feature on the 'large mahogany sideboard curiously inlaid with different colour'd woods' purchased by Henry Bankes from Mayhew and Ince on 30 August 1786 for £29.18s.3d (now at Kingston Lacy), as well as on the bowfronted corner table supplied to the 4th Duke of Marlborough (d. 1817).

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