Apter-Fredericks

Important 18th & 19th Century Antique Furniture

Tables

A George III Satinwood Console Table
A Regency Mahogany Games Table Attributable to Gillows of Lancaster
A Regency Period Dining Table by Gillow of Lancaster
A Pair of Chippendale Period Mahogany Concertina Action Card Tables
A Nineteenth Century Three Tier Etagere
A George I Carved Giltwood Side Table
An Early Regency Oval Mahogany Occasional Table
A George III Tripod Piecrust Table
A Pair of Regency Period Rosewood & Ormolu Consoles
A George III Satinwood Drum Table
A George III Carved Mahogany Side-table
A Regency Period Ormolu Mounted & Brass Inlaid Rosewood Sofa Table
A Pair of Regency Period Amboyna & Brass Mounted Etageres with Simulated Marble Tops
The Beningbrough Hall Gesso Tables by James Moore
A George III Burr-Yew-wood Sofa Table
A George III Regency Period Drinking Table
A George III Chippendale Period Carved Mahogany Serpentine Fronted Side Table
A George III Mahogany Silver Table
A Burr-Ash, Burr-Yew & Marquetry Centre Table Attributed to George Blake & Co
A George III Carved Mahogany 'Chinese' Chippendale Silver Table
An Exceptional George I Burr Walnut Card Table
An Exceptional Eighteenth Century Dutch Centre Table
A Most Unusual George III Carved Mahogany Whatnot
A Pair of Early Nineteenth Century Rosewood Etageres.
A Regency Period Amboyna and Brass Inlaid Sewing Table
A Rare George III Mahogany Side Table
A Rare Anglo-Indian Polychrome Decorated Drum Table
A Pair of George III Adam Period Rosewood Semi-Elliptical Console Tables
A Pair of Nineteenth Century Regency Penwork Tables
A George III Carved Mahogany Side Table
An Outstanding & Extremely Rare George I Burr Walnut Side Table
A Nineteenth Century Etagere of Most Unusual Form and Fine Quality
A Fine and Rare PAIR of Regency Period Rosewood End-Support Tables By Gillows
A Fine Pair of George III Satinwood Card Tables
A George III Satinwood "Harlequin" Pembroke Table in the Manner of Henry Kettle
A Rare George III Mahogany Urn Stand
A Fine George III Adam Period Mahogany Side Table
A Pair of Regency Period Rosewood Console Tables
An Unusual George III Carved Mahogany Tripod Table
The Beningbrough Hall Gesso Tables by James Moore


The Beningbrough Hall Gesso Tables by James Moore

Height: 31 ¾" 80.5cm
Width: 35 ¾" 91cm
Depth: 19 ¼" 49cm

The tables have marble tops sitting above a concave frieze carved with bellflowers within a series of arches. The tables each stand on four tapered legs with ionic capitals to the top and carved acanthus leaves and strap-work designs below. The legs united by a stretcher centered by a lozenge and flanked by C-shaped stretchers with guilloche banding, on quatre-foil voluted leaf-carved panel feet, decorated throughout on a scaled ground.

English, Circa 1720

Possibly supplied to James, 3rd Viscount Scudamore for Holme Lacy, Herefordshire
Thence by descent to Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield, Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire
Subsequently, Lady Menzies.

LITERATURE
Margaret Jourdain, 'Furniture at Beningbrough Hall', Country Life, December 3, 1927, p. 855
'Beningbrough Hall - II. Yorkshire', Country Life, December 3, 1927, pp. 824 (illustrated), 829
Ralph Edwards and Margaret Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London: Country Life Ltd., rev. ed. 1946, p. 92, fig. 17
(Beard and Gilbert, The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986. pp. 618-619).

ATTRIBUTION
Royal Cabinet-Maker to King George I, James Moore the Elder supplied furniture to a variety of members of the Royal Court and for the Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah. 'becoming as much involved with building work and the supervision of fitting out apartments as with cabinet making' at Blenheim Palace, even being referred to as her 'oracle' by Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.

The accounts of the Royal Palaces include bills for a group of tables he and his partner John Gumley supplied to George I for Kensington Palace between 1725 and 1727. The elaborately carved gesso adorning the tapered legs of the marble-topped tables, the intricate strap-work and the acanthus-fronded feet all recall the designs of Daniel Marot and apart from the apron, are almost identical to a single table from this group which is incised with Moore's name.