A pair of Victorian gilt-bronze-mounted ebony, amaranth and satinwood trellis parquetry tables circa 1885, attributed to Donald Ross of Denmark Hill, London

with frieze drawers and galleried lower shelf

Anthony Denney, Burton Hall, privately published, 1950, photographed in the Landscape Room

Overall these elegant tables are in 'country house' condition. There are some small losses to the banding of one of the tops and to both of the lower shelves. Both tops with damage from a liquid. Displaying marks and scratches consistent with age and use.
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Despite their French appearance, these tables can be attributed to the London firm Donald Ross who had premises in Soho during the third quarter of the 19th century. Ross appears to have made a speciality of the dotted marquetry trellis popularised by the French ébénistes Pierre Garnier and J. B. Sené in 18th century Paris. The firm exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London.

For a discussion on Ross see Christopher Payne, Nineteenth Century European Furniture, 1981, p. 315.