Lot Essay
The table-top, with flowered compartment enclosed by arabesque acanthus-wrapped ribbon scrolls, is conceived in the Louis XIV manner popularised in the early 18th Century by the Oeuvres of Daniel Marot (d.1752) published in 1712. Related table tops attributed to James Moore (d.1726) are illustrated in R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, 1955, rev. ed., pp. 130-133).
Its serpentine frame, with hollowed frieze wrapped by foliage in the centre and corners and with legs terminating in acanthus-wrapped feet, corresponds to that of a pier table supplied in 1726 for Erthig, Denbighshire. Formerly attributed to Moore, it is now credited to John Belchier (d.1753) of St. Paul's Churchyard (Edwards, ibid, fig. 31 and The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 59 and 60).
Its serpentine frame, with hollowed frieze wrapped by foliage in the centre and corners and with legs terminating in acanthus-wrapped feet, corresponds to that of a pier table supplied in 1726 for Erthig, Denbighshire. Formerly attributed to Moore, it is now credited to John Belchier (d.1753) of St. Paul's Churchyard (Edwards, ibid, fig. 31 and The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 59 and 60).