Apter-Fredericks

Important 18th & 19th Century Antique Furniture

Antique Tables

A Rare George II Mahogany Side Table
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 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 Superb Pembroke Table by Henry Hill
A Pair of Regency Period Rosewood Console Tables
An Unusual George III Carved Mahogany Tripod Table
Superb Pembroke Table by Henry Hill

A Superb Pembroke Table by Henry Hill

Height: 26" 67cm
Width: 41" 104cm
Depth: 32" 82cm

A very fine and rare George III satinwood and marquetry Pembroke table attributable to Henry Hill of Marlborough. The serpentine shaped top having butterfly shaped flaps with inlaid chequer stringing. The parquetry top centered with an oval oak panel with floral marquetry. The front and back having further floral inlay to the frieze and the table supported on four circular fluted legs terminating in brass and leather castors. The table being of excellent quality and superb colour and patination.

English, Circa 1775

ATTRIBUTION
This piece exemplifies one of Henry Hill's most successful and distinctive designs, for a Pembroke table with serpentine sides on turned tapering legs, each with a fluted shaft divided by a gadrooned collar from the plain turned foot.

Others survive in both marquetry and mahogany (a less luxurious option), in each case displaying large lozenge-shaped veneers, evoking a garden trellis. A mahogany example at Corsham Court reflects a series of payments made to Hill by Paul Methuen from 1760 until Hill's death, amounting to over £1300; while another marquetry example was formerly at Burderop House, home of the Calley family who were likewise longstanding patrons of Hill (Wood 1990, pp. 202-03 and nn. 40, 46).

The trellis-like lozenge parquetry also features on other pieces by Hill, for instance on a marquetry commode at the Lady Lever Art Gallery (Wood 1994, cat. no. 4 and figs 51-52). This device finds parallels in German furniture, reflecting Hill's highly unusual Continental connections (see for example Kreisel 1983, Vol. II, figs 588-89, 645, 647) - as also indicated by his occasional use of a decorative 'brokatpapier' from Augsburg and the evidence that he employed immigrant craftsmen.

The floral marquetry in an acanthus-wrapped oval medallion is also echoed in other marquetry pieces by or attributed to Hill, including the commode supplied to the Duke of Somerset, c. 1770-71 (Wood 1990, figs 8-9; Wood 1994, fig. 55). Ultimately this motif may be inspired by the decoration of a commode in the Victoria and Albert Museum, which appears to be the work of a German craftsman employed by Hill; whether it was made before or after the craftsman entered Hill's employment is uncertain (Wood 1994, fig. 53). The unusual ground veneer in this medallion reflects another characteristic of some of Hill's grandest furniture, being paralleled for example in a bombé commode he supplied to Lord Delaval (sold Bonham's, London, 19 October 2011, lot 98), which is closely related to the V&A commode.

A feature of this Pembroke table not paralleled on Hill's other recorded tables or commodes is the carved (intaglio) patera at the top of the legs. Perhaps this motif may provide a link to more of Hill's repertoire, not so far identified.

Heinrich Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, 3 vols, 2nd edn revised by Georg Himmelheber (Munich, 1983)
Lucy Wood, 'Furniture for Lord Delaval, metropolitan and provincial', Furniture History, Vol. 26 (1990), pp. 198-238
Lucy Wood, The Lady Lever Art Gallery: Catalogue of Commodes (London, 1994), cat. no. 4, pp. 64-73