A FINE GEORGE III MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD TABLE IN THE MANNER OF CHIPPENDALE THE YOUNGER CIRCA 1790

Lacking molding to bottom of central panel.

Overall in good condition, the top with some old rings stains, marks, scratches and scuffs and with some slight bowing, some vertical age cracks to frieze, some minor old worm to back rail, overall with some old marks, scratches, scuffs and bruises consistent with age and use.
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Designed in the neo-classical taste, this elegant table may be compared with a pair of tables commissioned from Thomas Chippendale the Younger by Ninian Home for Paxton House, Berwickshire between 1789 and 1791. Of semi-elliptical form, the mahogany tops of these tables are inlaid with a fan pattern above a cross-banded frieze, the turned legs appearing to be identical to one sold in these rooms, October 18, 2006, lot 271, and similar to those on the present table. 

One of five designs from Sketches of Ornament by Thomas Chippendale the Younger, published the year of his father's death in 1779, shows an urn of almost identical form to the present lot: a reeded finial above an urn with a guilloche-carved band, a partially reeded body on a plain socle with an outscrolled top.  Rather than the husk swags shown in the design, so typical of the Chippendale workshop, this table's urn has drapery swags.  Regarding the reeded decoration, Ivan Hall remarks in 'The Engravings of Thomas Chippendale, Jnr, 1779', 'both father and son preferred reeded urns to those with more conventional fluting, as can be seen in four of the of five plates and at [Harewood, Burton Constable and Nostell]; The Journal of the Furniture History Society, vol. XI, 1975, pp. 56-58, figs. 123-127.

See The Connoisseur, August 1972, 'Chippendale Senior and Junior at Paxton', Christopher Gilbert, pp.254-268, fig. 21. Lot 271