CIRCA 1810-20

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND BOXWOOD-STRUNG DRUM-LIBRARY TABLE
CIRCA 1810-20
The top inset with gilt-tooled Burgundy leather above four frieze drawers and four conforming false drawers on a turned pedestal and sabre legs with brass caps and castors, with trade label 'Toplis & Woolfitt /../22 St Paul's Church Yard/...'
29 in. (74 cm.) high; 39 in. (99 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

Toplis and Woolfitt are listed as upholsterers and cabinet-makers at 22 St. Paul's Churchyard between 1813 - 20. James Toplis was apprenticed to James Duthoit around 1790 and had established his own business by 1798. The premises in St Paul's Churchyard were destroyed by fire in 1810, but Toplis evidently rebuilt his workshop and seems to have entered into partnership with John Woolfit in 1813. In 1814 Topliss took out Sun Insurance policies on stock, utensils and goods in trust in his house, workshops, warerooms and lofts, plus an additional policy for premises in Knightrider Court. He is recorded at various other addresses in the locale until 1828 (C. Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660 - 1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 899).

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