CIRCA 1790

Closely related tables of the same basic form with painted tops and incurved giltwood bases include: a pair from Ham House, Surrey (bearing the family arms and inscription) and later with Norman Adams, London (illustrated in C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1983, p. 337); another shown in situ in the White Drawing Room at Houghton Hall, Norfolk (illustrated in M. Jourdain, The Work of William Kent, London, 1948, p. 149, fig. 96); and a third with oval top, acquired by Sir Michael Sobell from Mallett in 1959 and later sold, The Sir Michael Sobell Collection, Christie's, London, 23 June 1994, lot 136.