A GEORGE III INLAID ROSEWOOD DRUM TABLE BY THOMAS WILMOTT circa 1800

the circular revolving cross banded top lined with larger above a conforming frieze with six triangular form drawers with banding and stringing, supported on a turned tapered satinwood column with ring turned collars on a tripod support with square down swept legs with brass cap castors, the underside of two drawers with a printed label inscribed T. Wilmott / Upholder / Cabinet-maker and Undertaker / No. 16 / John Street, Oxford Street / Imperial Dining Tables. / Sofas, Chair Beds on improved Principles.

Doyles, New York, May, 2002

Overall in good condition, the leather later, and with various small replacements and restorations to the stringing and cross banding. The underside of the top has been strengthened with a later cross bar, but retains the original turned boss above the column support. One pull cracked and detached.
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Thomas Wilmott is first recorded at this address in April of 1800, and appeared in the list of master cabinet makers appended to Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary in 1803.

See:
Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 986.
Christopher Gilbert, The Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, pp. 56 and 490-491, pls. 1007-1011.