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
George III Satinwood "Harlequin" Pembroke Table in the Manner of Henry Kettle

A George III Satinwood "Harlequin" Pembroke Table in the Manner of Henry Kettle

Height: 28" 71cm
Width: 20" 51cm / 37" 94.5
Depth: 29" 73.5cm

The rectangular satinwood top with yew-wood panels to the centre of each of the top and flaps above two drawers with dummy drawers to the reverse and supported on four square tapering legs terminating in brass box castors. The table is of excellent colour and quality.

Hepplewhite described pembroke tables as the most useful tables of their class and certainly this is borne out by the literature of the time. In Jane Austen's 'Emma' the heroine talks about her father taking his meals on one. Jane Austen also wrote to her sister when some new furniture was delivered to Steventon, that her mother kept all her papers in a pembroke table. Further sources mention ladies doing their embroidery at these tables.

Considering the popularity of the pembroke table it is not surprising that an ingenious variety termed 'harlequin pembroke table' appears towards the end of the century. The distinctive feature being a box-like structure, fitted with small drawers and pigeon holes which is concealed in the body of the table and by means of weights rises up above the top.

English, Circa 1785

Attribution
There are several tables by Kettle, many of which are labelled, that bear striking similarities to the one illustrated. Most notably the rectangular flaps with geometric inlay and the oval panel to the centre.
See Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700 - 1840, figs 543, 556.