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A NEAR PAIR OF GEORGE III FRUITWOOD VIDES POCHE 19th Century
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
- height of larger 29 in.; width 22 in.; depth 14 1/2 in.
- 73.7 cm; 55.9 cm; 36.8 cm
each rectangular top with hinged front, the pierced trestle support joined by a medial shelf and ending in splayed legs.
Provenance
Partridge Fine Arts, London
Acquired from the above, 1985
Catalogue Note
The design for these elegant satinwood work tables is taken from Thomas Sheraton’s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing Book, published in 1793, plate 54 which is inscribed ‘A Lady’s Work Table’. The text it is headed ‘Of the French Work Table’, continuing ‘The title of this table sufficiently indicates its use. The style of finishing them is neat, being commonly made of satinwood, with a brass moulding round the edge of the rim’, which is a careful description of the present tables. Further paragraphs describe the method of construction declaring that ‘The shelf below is shaped something like a boat…….which serves as a convenience for sewing implements’.