ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM HALLETT, CIRCA 1745

The table’s shell and husk-carved leg with distinctive ringed ankle corresponds to a walnut suite of seat furniture supplied by the fashionable cabinet-maker William Hallett (d. 1781) for the London house of Arthur Ingram, 6th Viscount Irwin in 1735. The suite was later removed to Temple Newsam House, Yorkshire and sold in 1922 (C. Gilbert, 'Newly Discovered Furniture by William Hallett', The Connoisseur, December 1964, pp. 224-225); twelve chairs and a settee were subsequently sold anonymously, Christie’s, London, 29 June 1978, lot 19.