A REGENCY BRONZED AND SATINWOOD-INLAID MAHOGANY SOFA TABLE

AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS SHERATON, CIRCA 1805

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A REGENCY BRONZED AND SATINWOOD-INLAID MAHOGANY SOFA TABLE
AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS SHERATON, CIRCA 1805
The rectangular top with rounded corners supported by lion masks, with a hinged flap to each end, with two frieze drawers, false drawers to the reverse, on fluted trestles terminating in lion claw feet, ash drawer linings
28 in. (71 cm.) high, 44 ½ in. (113 cm.) wide, 20 ¾ in. (53 cm.) deep

Provenance

Probably supplied to Robert Cotton St. John Rowle, 18th Baron Clinton for Bicton, Devonshire.
Thence by descent until sold The Rt. Hon. Lord Clinton, Bicton, South Devon; Sotheby & Co., London, 9 July 1954, lot 103 (to Quinneys for £470) .
With Quinney's, Chester.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.

Literature

V. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collecton, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 214, fig. 253.

Lot Essay

The table conforms precisely to a design published by Thomas Sheraton in 1805 and reproduced in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., Suffolk, 1954, vol. III, p. 120, fig. 1. It was likely to have been acquired for Bicton by Robert Cotton St. John Rowle, 18th Baron Clinton (d. 1832) and Lord of the Bedchamber to King George III sometime after his marriage in 1814.

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