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Lot Essay
The table shows similarities with the furniture supplied in 1828 by Nicolas Morel and George Seddon for the Royal apartments at Windsor Castle, Morel having been appointed by George IV after previously working at both Brighton Pavilion and Carlton House, London.
The presence of entirely carved and gilded decoration, rather than ormolu, was a feature of items such as a rosewood secretaire cabinet for Room 223, a mahogany dressing-table for Room 236, and an amboyna centre table for Room 243, illustrated in Hugh Roberts, For the King's Pleasure The Furnishing and Decoration of George IV's Apartments at Windsor Castle, London, 2001, p. 327, fig. 408, p. 336, fig. 421, and p. 360, fig. 441 respectively. All featured similar slightly tapering columns as integral to their design, and the scrolled feet of the last are extremely close in execution to those of the present lot.
The presence of entirely carved and gilded decoration, rather than ormolu, was a feature of items such as a rosewood secretaire cabinet for Room 223, a mahogany dressing-table for Room 236, and an amboyna centre table for Room 243, illustrated in Hugh Roberts, For the King's Pleasure The Furnishing and Decoration of George IV's Apartments at Windsor Castle, London, 2001, p. 327, fig. 408, p. 336, fig. 421, and p. 360, fig. 441 respectively. All featured similar slightly tapering columns as integral to their design, and the scrolled feet of the last are extremely close in execution to those of the present lot.