A FINE GEORGE III MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE CIRCA 1760

Flaps warped.

Overall good condition, the top with old marks, scratches, stains with some very minor shrinkage to the veneer, some slight wear to carved edge, some old worm to brackets and side frieze, small chip to corner of the middle bock of the back right leg, front left and right and back right block feet pieced, overall with some old marks, scratches and bruises consistent with age and use.
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Conceived in the Chinese manner with Gothic ornament, this table has features that are found on related examples: an almost identical Pembroke table,  the top with book-matched flame veneers, was sold in these rooms, The Jerome Neuhoff Collection, January 25, 1986, lot 237; a similar table, with arcaded frieze, the cluster-column legs with rectangular imbricated panels and cluster-columnar stretchers, is illustrated, Macquoid and Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1954, vol. III, pl. 266, fig. 2; a table with a fretwork frieze centered by a lozenge was sold, Christie's, London, November 20, 1986, lot 120. Another similar table is in the collection of Rienzi, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Katherine S. Howe, Rienzi, European Decorative Arts and Paintings, 2008, p. 32, fig. 27.

Several suites of seating furniture with cluster-column legs relate to the present table: a stool from Padworth House, Berkshire, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1954, vol. III, p. 179, fig. 54, a settee from Ingress Abbey, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, ibid., p. 84, fig. 33, a suite of furniture from the collection of Lady Hague, comprising a settee, six chairs, four stools and a pair of fire-screens, was sold, Sotheby's, London, June 23, 1961, lot 152, a suite of furniture from Bramshill Park, Hampshire, sold, Christie's, New York, April 16, 1994, lot 156, a window seat, sold in these rooms, January 25, 1997, lot 227 and a pair of stools, also from the Bramshill suite, was sold in these rooms, The Estate of Mrs. John Hay Whitney, April 22-25, 1999, lot 119.