Live Auction 5971An English Look - Robert Kime, Piers von Westenholz, David Bedale and James Graham-Stewart
Christie’s roundel
Lot 400

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE

CIRCA 1770, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

Closed8 July 2009

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GBP 20,000

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE
CIRCA 1770, IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE
The blind fret-carved frieze with three drawers to each side, on chamfered square legs with scroll brackets and brass castors, the Chippendale pattern brass handles apparently original
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 54 in. (137 cm.) wide; 34½ in. 987 cm.) deep

Supplied to The Lords Mostyn, Mostyn Hall, Denbighshire, Wales and by descent until sold, The Gryn Castle Sale, Christie's house sale, 17-18 July 2006, lot 645.

Specialist note

The table is wreathed by a ribbon-guilloche fret that is mosaiced in lozenged compartments as featured in a sideboard-table pattern in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director, 1754 (pl. 36). The pattern for the pilaster legs, and the pattern for the axe-head drawer handles, are also derived from Chippendale's sideboard-table patterns (pl.35).