Live Auction 4626Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A MAHOGANY SERVING TABLE
Lot 159

A MAHOGANY SERVING TABLE

LATE 20TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING EARLIER PARTS

Closed13 March 2012

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GBP 5,625

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A MAHOGANY SERVING TABLE
LATE 20TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING EARLIER PARTS
The inverted breakfront top above a stepped plain frieze supported on paterae and lotus clasped scroll monopodiae on plinths with mirror glazed back panels
38¼ in. (97 cm.) high; 86¾ in. (220.5 cm.) wide; 25½ in. (65 cm.) deep

Specialist note

This type of monumental, architectural table pattern in the Grecian "antique" manner enjoyed enduring popularity during the late George III era and Regency period. Inspired by the architect Charles Heathcote Tatham (d.1842) and illustrated in his Etchings of Ancient Ornamental Architecture 1799, examples of furniture were supplied for the London mansion/museum of the connoisseur Thomas Hope (d.1832) and illustrated in Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. Designs were subsequently re-issued in George Smith's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1826.