Apter-Fredericks

Important 18th & 19th Century Antique Furniture

Brass

A Fine George III Mahogany Carlton House Writing Table
A Regency Mahogany Games Table Attributable to Gillows of Lancaster
A Regency Period Japanned Fire Bellows,
A Pair of George III Large Bergere Chairs
A Regency Period Mahogany & Ebony Writing Table
An Early Regency Oval Mahogany Occasional Table
A Very Fine George I Walnut Chest on Stand
A Pair of Regency Period Rosewood & Ormolu Consoles
A George III Sheraton Period Oval Tray
A George III Satinwood Drum Table
A Regency Period Ormolu Mounted & Brass Inlaid Rosewood Sofa Table
A Pair of Regency Period Amboyna & Brass Mounted Etageres with Simulated Marble Tops
A Pair of Regency Period Mahogany Curricle Bergeres
A George III Burr-Yew-wood Sofa Table
A George III Regency Period Drinking Table
A Rare 'Penfold' Hexagonal Oak Letter Box
A Regency Period Brass Tea Caddy
A Burr-Ash, Burr-Yew & Marquetry Centre Table Attributed to George Blake & Co
A Rare Pair of George III Mahogany Plate Buckets
A Nineteenth Century Mahogany Tobacco Jar
An Important George III Mahogany Library Table of Superb Colour & Quality
A Magnificent Carlton House Boulle-Inlaid Table Designed for George, The Prince of Wales, The Prince Regent,
A Regency Rosewood and Brass-Inlaid Side Cabinet Attributed to Gillow of Lancaster
A Regency Period Amboyna and Brass Inlaid Sewing Table
A Regency Period Mahogany Extending Dining Table
A Regency Period Rosewood & Ormolu Mounted Secretaire Cabinet
A Pair of Nineteenth Century Regency Penwork Tables
A George III Mahogany Oval Wine Cooler
A Fine and Rare PAIR of Regency Period Rosewood End-Support Tables By Gillows
A Most Unusual Tea Caddy
A Pair of Late Eighteenth Century Glass Lustres
A Nineteenth Century Country House Post Box
A George III Satinwood "Harlequin" Pembroke Table in the Manner of Henry Kettle
A George III Period Personal Weighing Machine or 'Sanctorius's Balance'
A Regency Period Carved Giltwood Convex Mirror
A George III Brass Eight Branch Chandelier Attributed to John Giles
A Regency Period Hexagonal Brass Lantern
A George III Chippendale Period Carved Mahogany Commode
A George III Rolled Paperwork Box, decorated by Mary Earnshaw of Wakefield in 1795
A Rare George III Mahogany and Brass Champagne Cooler
A Pair of Regency Period Curricle Chairs
A George III Mahogany and Cross-banded Barometer
A Superb Pembroke Table by Henry Hill
A Rare Regency Rosewood and Parcel-Gilt Revolving Bookstand
A Pair of Regency Period Rosewood Console Tables
A Rosewood and brass mounted side table by John McLean
An Extremely Rare Pair of Georgian Brass Candelabra
A Regency Period Hall Seat Attributed to George Bullock
An Important Regency Mahogany Sideboard With a Pair of Pedestals en Suite. Attributed to George Oakley
An Elegant Georgian Mahogany Circular Dining Table
Regency Period Ormolu Mounted & Brass Inlaid Rosewood Sofa Table

A Regency Period Ormolu Mounted & Brass Inlaid Rosewood Sofa Table

Height: 28.75" 73cm
Width: 31" 79cm
Length: 64.5" 163cm

This highly decorative sofa table retains its darkly figured rosewood veneer which has been inlaid with brass decoration. The quality of the additional brass mounts to the base and the consummate skill with which the inlay has been cut into the rosewood are a clear indication of a highly gifted maker, certainly one based in London.

If ever there was a wood that epitomised the Regency period, it would have to be rosewood. Here we see the rosewood inlaid with brass and because the wood has retained its dark colour, the contrast is quite marked and very different to the effect one would have seen on the inlaid and banded examples from the Sheraton period. Indeed, it was Sheraton himself who commented that "cross-banding is now laid aside for the more durable work in solid brass".

Apart from the quality, this table exhibits knowledge of the most up to date fashions in London in the early 19th century. Indeed, one could suggest that the most plausible maker was Louis le Gaigneur, a cabinet maker working almost exclusively for George IV, who was setting the fashion in his French inspired furnishings of Carlton House.

English, Circa 1815

Acquired by Sir Sydney Barratt from Temple Williams Ltd., London, 27 June 1960 (as probably by Louis Constantin Le Gaigneur of Queen Street) and by descent.