A GEORGE III FIDDLEBACK MAHOGANY, SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY PEMBROKE TABLE
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A GEORGE III FIDDLEBACK MAHOGANY, SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY PEMBROKE TABLE

POSSIBLY BY WILLIAM MOORE OF DUBLIN

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A GEORGE III FIDDLEBACK MAHOGANY, SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY PEMBROKE TABLE
Possibly by William Moore of Dublin
Crossbanded overall in rosewood, the shaped rectangular twin-flap top centred by an oval inlaid with floral sprays centred by a patera, each corner filled with a rose, the flaps inlaid with ribbon-tied floral sprays, above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer, on square tapering legs headed by husk trails, with label attached behind one gate inscribed in ink 'W. Boswell & Son St. Ethelbert's House, Tombland, Norwich', and with another label attached behind the other gate 'Anna Connold', the underside of the top with four screwholes, probably from restoration
28 in. (71 cm.) high; 32½ in. (82.5 cm.) wide; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anna Connold.
W. Boswell & Son, St Ethelbert's House, Tombland, Norwich.
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Lot Essay

The elegant herm-legged table is designed for a bedroom apartment in the George III antique fashion of the 1770s, and framed by an etruscan-black border. Stems of Venus's sacred roses strew the spandrels of the top, which is ray-parquetried from a golden 'Roman' medallion displaying a love-trophy of rose sprigs.

Amongst the most celebrated cabinet-making firms producing such flowered marquetry was that of John Cobb (d. 1778), whose work is discussed in L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, no. 7).
However, such roses feature in the work of William Moore of Dublin (d. 1814) such as on a commode supplied to the 3rd Duke of Portland for Welbeck Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire in 1782 when Viceroy of Ireland (R. Jinks, 'William Moore's Work in Dublin', M.A. thesis submitted to The Cooper-Hewitt Museum and the Parsons School of Design, May 1992, fig. A).

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