A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, SYCAMORE AND MARQUETRY CARD TABLE

This card-table with its top inlaid with floral swags, relates to a pair of large giltwood pier tables with inlaid tops supplied to Richard Myddleton (d. 1795) for Chirk Castle, Denbighsire, by the Golden Square firm of cabinet-makers, John Mayhew (d. 1811) and William Ince (d. 1804). The Chirk tables have closely related marquetry inlaid tops of ribbon-tied floral swags, with a fan-motif to the rear edge and herm-fluted legs (Chirk Castle, Guidebook, Norwich, 1971, photographed in situ in The Saloon). Two letters from Ince of 1782 and 1783 refer to the giltwood saloon furniture at Chirk, and despite the absence of a bill, the majority of the saloon furniture, including a pair of pier tables and mirrors en suite, a suite of seat furniture and four torcheres, are firmly attributed to the firm of Mayhew and Ince (The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 596).