Reference: 7851246

Applied with gilt bronze mounts, the shaped rectangular top with inlaid geometric bands above a stylised anthemion and scrolling leaf frieze flanked by applied paterae above a pair of convex drawers flanked by anthemion above a flattened moulded stretcher and shaped end supports inlaid with anthemion on scroll feet, applied with paterae and lotus leaves.

English, Circa 1815

Provenance
Maggie Stobo


Maggie Stobo's love of collecting began whilst she was still at school. She received a formal art training at the Royal College of Art where she had the fortune of being tutored by some of the greats: 'Graeme Sutherland taught me paining, Henry Moore taught me drawing and Eric Gill taught me calligraphy'. Her career in advertising began at Young & Rubicon where she was Creative Director before starting her own advertising company. A hobby and talent for needlework flourished into a successful side line and she received commissions and restoration work from many leading furniture dealers as well as commissions for Royal residences. As a needlework specialist she became a leading authority and advised members of the British Antiques Dealers Association.

Reference
See R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, page 574, figure 15 for a similar brass mounted sofa table in calamander from the collection of Her late Majesty Queen Mary. Edwards notes that it 'is not only of remarkable quality but also exceptional because, instead of the normal folding flaps, the end draws out beneath the top, which fall into precision between them'.

The design of the end supports reflect the published designs of both George Smith and Thomas Hope (1769-1831). The Greek inspired scroll ends with anthemion decoration are seen in pl.XII, fig. 6 of Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration (1807). Two dressing tables relating to the table are illustrated in George Smith's A collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration (1808), plates 72 & 73. A mahogany and ebony inlaid table relating to Smith's dressing table design, formerly on the collection of Edward Knoblock, is illustrated in F. Collard Regency Furniture, Suffolk 1985, p.101.

Height: 29" 75cm

Width: 25" 66cm

Length: 45" 115cm (67" 172cm extended)