A GEORGE III BURR-YEW AND PARCEL-GILT OCCASIONAL TABLE

This interesting table, possibly designed to display a porcelain plaque or hold a dish, is typical of the furniture produced in the Louis XVI 'Carlton House taste', promoted by the émigré Parisian marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre and the architect Henry Holland under the patronage of the Prince of Wales. The unusual use of burr yew in the veneers of this table can be linked with the work of the cabinet makers Marsh and Tatham who supplied 'ebony inlaid yewtree bookcases with bronze antique heads' for Carlton House in 1806.
This table has been traditionaly known as 'Lady Jersey's table', a suggestion made all the more plausible by its remarkable proximity to the new furniture being supplied for Carlton House, given that Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey was a mistress of the Prince of Wales, later H.M. King George IV during the closing years of the 18th century.