A George II brass and mother of pearl inlaid supper table, in the manner of Frederik Hintz circa 1760

the dished scalloped top inlaid with shells and flowerheads around a centred rosette on a baluster stem with with legs and pad feet

Norman Adams, 27th July 1992, (£2,000).

The top slightly faded, the edge of one scallop lacking brass stringing, the brass inlay pertaining original engravings. Old marks and scratches to the base consistent with age and use. The surface has had a shellac vanish applied that can be removable, if not according to taste.
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The design of the present table with its scalloped top inlaid with brass is similar to a group of tables associated with the German-born cabinet-maker Johann Frederick Hintz, ( d.1776),  examples of which are illustrated in Christopher Gilbert and Tessa Murdoch, John Channon and Brass-inlaid Furniture 1730-1760, 1993, pl. XXIV and figs. 149-150. Hintz traded at `The Porcupine', Newport Street, and on 22nd May, 1738 advertised a sale of `Choice Tea Boards, etc., all curiously [finely wrought] made and inlaid with fiine 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', ( G. Beard and C. Gilbert, eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p.434). Similar furniture was produced by other cabinet-makers in London at this period, including Abraham Roentgen and John Channon, but Hintz is regarded as the foremost exponent of this style of workmanship ( cf. Gilbert & Murdoch, op. cit . pl. XXV & figs.16-17, 145-148, & 155: Ralph Edwards and Percy Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., 3 vols., 1954, vol. III, P.206, fig. 15; and Christopher Claxton Stevens and Stewart Whittington, 18th century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, 1983, pp.288-289, illus.).

For comparison similar examples sold, Sotheby`s London, Important English Furniture, 15th November 1996, lot 20, £27,000,  Sotheby`s New York, 26th May, 2000, The Collection of Mr and Mrs Saul P. Steinberg, lot 196, $280,000,