A GEORGE II STYLE MAHOGANY SUPPER TABLE IN THE STYLE OF FREDERICK HINTZ

the dished top rotating and tilting above a birdcage support.

Good condition, with very minor age crack to base of stem, some minor scratches and bruises.
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This supper table is after a design for similar tables possibly made by Frederick Hintz.  Hintz (or Hints) who is recorded at 'The Porcupine', Newport Street, near Leicester Fields, London.  An advertisement in the Daily Post, May 22, 1738, announced the sale of 'a choice parcel of Desks and Book cases of mahogany, tea tables, tea chests, tea-boards etc. all curiously made and inlaid with fine figures of Brass and mother-of-pearl. They will be sold at a very reasonable rate, the maker Frederick Hintz, designing soon to go abroad.'  All the tables are of similar construction: the lobed tops, presumably made to hold securely small dishes, are inlaid with fine brass lines to the edges, the central compartments edged with inlaid engraved brass and mother-of-pearl and variously depicting shells, flowers and leaves, and also with acorns, birds and squirrels. Some of the stems are baluster turned, others with gadrooned collars.  The tripod bases have simple cabriole legs terminating in pad or carved claw-and-egg toes, some inlaid with brass and mother-of-pearl to the tops.

Other recorded examples of a 'triquetra' or Manx three-legged support are an example in the Victoria and Albert Museum; one sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, The Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Collection, May 6-7, 1960, lot 504; one sold, Sotheby's, London, November 17, 1989, lot 42, and later in these rooms, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Saul Steinberg, May 26, 2000, lot 196 ($280,000)