Thomas Moore
Head of Department
Lot 63TP
A George III mahogany silver table in the manner of Mayhew and Ince
18 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£10,000 - £15,000
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A George III mahogany silver table
in the manner of Mayhew and Ince
Circa 1765, the rectangular top with a pierced fretwork gallery and a moulded edge, above an interlaced blind fretwork frieze, on four ring turned cluster column legs, each leg comprising three columns intersected by four rosette carved blocks, with patera block feet terminating in recessed brass castors, 94cm wide x 61cm deep x 72.5cm high, (37in wide x 24in deep x 28 1/2in high)
Circa 1765, the rectangular top with a pierced fretwork gallery and a moulded edge, above an interlaced blind fretwork frieze, on four ring turned cluster column legs, each leg comprising three columns intersected by four rosette carved blocks, with patera block feet terminating in recessed brass castors, 94cm wide x 61cm deep x 72.5cm high, (37in wide x 24in deep x 28 1/2in high)
Footnotes
A comparable silver table to the present lot, with similar cluster column legs interspersed by rosette carved blocks, sold Christie's, New York, 21st October 1999, Important English Furniture, lot 83. Both of these examples have distinctive rosette carved blocks and cluster column legs, which are characteristics appearing in a number of designs by John Mayhew and William Ince from their 1762 publication, The Universal System of Household Furniture.
A further related model appears illustrated in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Vol. III, 1954, New York, fig. 6, p. 204.
