A Regency Period Amboyna and Brass Inlaid Sewing Table
Height: 30.5" 77cm
Width: 22"' 56cm
Depth: 15" 38cm
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.
English, Circa 1810