A George III inlaid kingwood, tulipwood and mahogany Pembroke table in the manner of Henry Hill of Marlborough circa 1770

Overall good restored condition; beautiful figuring and color to the veneers; the underside of the flaps with some restoration to correct warpage; batten to the underside of the top to stabilize warpage; some minor nicks and wear to extremities.
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The offered lot displays a number of characteristics of the cabinet-maker Henry Hill of Marlborough.  In the 1770s, Hill supplied to Corsham Court, Wiltshire a Pembroke table with a top veneered with closely related large-scale lozenge parquetry, identical serpentine form and nearly identical legs.  The Corsham table is illustrated by Lucy Wood in Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, p.68, and as the author notes, parquetry of this type ‘seems to have been a speciality of Hill’s, with or without the addition of marquetry.’   Another table of similar form, almost certainly supplied by Hill to Burderop Park, Wiltshire circa 1771, is illustrated by Wood, p.67, fig. 47.

Henry Hill was a cabinet-maker, estate agent, auctioneer and representative of the Sun Insurance Company from about 1740 to 1777.  His known commissions for furniture came from landed Wiltshire families (the Duke of Somerset at Maiden Bradley and Henry Hoare at Stourhead were other local clients), although one notable metropolitan commission came from Lord Delaval for his London townhouse in 1775/6.

A Pembroke table of similar form to the offered lot was sold at Phillips London, 9 October 2001, lot 64 (£47,700). Another similar table with serpentine top sold at Christie's, London, April 21, 2005, lot 238, ($32,172)