A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT CENTRE TABLE

This table supports a tray-edged marble top, in Flemish fashion, and resembles a bedroom-apartment china display-table. With its 'vase' pillars chamfered, herm-tapered and raised on spherical bases and its stretcher-tie raised on Roman truss-scrolled feet, it relates to a dressing-table stand that has been dated between 1700 and 1720 and is displayed at the Red Lodge, Bristol (A. Bowett, English Furniture: 1669-1714, Woodbridge 2002, pl. 9:13).

A similar foot and stretcher arrangement featured on a gateleg table from the Moller Collection, sold at Sotheby's London, 'An Important Private Collection of 16th, 17th and 18th Century Furniture, Formed under the guidance of R.W. Symonds', 28 May 1982, lot 40.