A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLES

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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY SERVING-TABLES
Each with bowfront breakfront rectangular top, crossbanded in rosewood and with solid gallery to the reverse with bobbin-turned moulding and central tablet, with heavily gadrooned edge, above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer, with bobbin-turned edge, on square tapering acanthus-enriched truss legs, and lion-paw feet, with square legs to the reverse, crossbanded in rosewood, stamped to the drawer 'FROM W. WILLIAMSON & SONS, GUILDFORD', originally with further brass gallery to the reverse, restorations
41 in. (105 cm.) high; 67 in. (172 cm.) wide; 31 in. (78.5 cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

A pattern for a related sideboard-table, with voluted and acanthus-wrapped feet terminating in lion-paws was published in T. King's The Cabinet-Maker's Sketch Book, 1835 (see E. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 433).

The firm of Williamson and Sons traded for over a century in Guildford, where they were established in the middle of the 19th Century.

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