CIRCA 1750, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE
CIRCA 1750, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE
The rectangular twin-flap top above a frieze drawer, on square tapering channelled legs joined by a pierced flat-section X-shaped stretcher with block feet and brass and rolled leather castors, the underside with a paper label inscribed '193 DHM' and 'Chippendale Pembroke Table 62' to a further typed paper label 'FROM THE LONG GALLERY', the underside stamped with the three Murray stars (mullets)
28 ¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 38 ¾ in. (98.5 cm.) wide; 29 ¾ in. (75.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Earls of Mansfield.
Possibly Kenwood House, London.
Removed to Scone Palace prior to the auction at Kenwood in 1922; thence by descent until
sold Christie's, London, 24 May 2007, lot 250.

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Lot Essay

The elegant herm-tapered and plinth-supported legs enriched with antique flutes on this table were popularised by Thomas Chippendale in his Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director (3rd ed., 1762, pl. 17). With its inclusion of a gothic-fretted stretcher, it also relates to a table pattern attributed to Chippendale and issued by A Society of Upholsterers in Household Furniture in genteel Taste for the Year 1760 (pl. 35).
The underside of this table is branded with the three Murray mullets, which may have been used as an identifying device for items at Kenwood House, London, and interestingly the Scone Palace Archive records that Thomas Chippendale supplied looking-glass plates for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield at Kenwood House in 1769 (the frames were made by William France to Robert Adam's design, see C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, Vol. I, p. 256).

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