ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE OAKLEY, CIRCA 1810

The distinctive star inlay appears on a group of furniture supplied by George Oakley for Charles Madryll Cheere at Papworth Hall, Cambridge, after 1809. A games table from Papworth, subsequently inherited by Mrs. Stileman is illustrated in R. Edwards, ed., The Dictionary of English Furniture, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1954, vol. III, p. 202, fig. 42.