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A GEORGE III CROCODILE MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE
Lot 577 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF GEORGE MCFADDEN AND MCFADDEN BROTHERS PARTNERSHIP (LOTS 559-581)

A GEORGE III CROCODILE MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE

CIRCA 1770

Closed20 October 2011

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A GEORGE III CROCODILE MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE
CIRCA 1770
The shaped top with rosewood crossbanding above a frieze drawer and opposing sham drawer, on fan-carved cabriole legs ending in molded feet raised on caps and leather casters, later pulls
28 in. (71 cm.) high, 19 in. (48.5 cm.) wide, 29 in. (73.5 cm.) deep, closed

Acquired from Hotspur, London, 1995.

Specialist note

An identical table sold Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1996, lot 72 (£20,700). A closely related table formerly in the collection of the collector Frederick Poke, is illustrated in R. W. Symonds, 'Tables of the 18th Century', Apollo, September 1939, p. 115, fig. VIII and in C. Claxton-Stevens and S. Wittington, 18th Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, 1983, pp. 320-321.