A Regency Period Amboyna and Brass Inlaid Sewing Table - Apter-Fredericks Antique Regency Furniture Dealer

The table is of outstanding quality and superb colour and patination. Its rectangular top is decorated with floral brass inlay and supported on finely modeled end-supports inlaid with the same floral brass decoration and united by a low stretcher with an upholstered foot pad to the centre. The table standing on splayed feet.

By the Regency period 'work' or sewing tables were invariably designed with end-supports, a pleated silk bag and a stretcher below. In 1803 Sheraton was writing that "cross-banding is now laid aside for the more durable work in solid brass". At the beginning of this period it might have been a simple line inlaid into the veneer but after about 1810 the inlay became more complex and imitated French Buhl-Work as in this case.