喬治三世桃花心木配緞木摺桌， 約1775年，湯瑪斯·齊本戴爾（Thomas Chippendale）製

the serpentine crossbanded and inlaid top above a drawer and dummy drawer on shaped legs carved to the top with stylised palmettes, on shaped cabriole legs and terminating in scroll feet and leather castors

由尼尼安‧奧馬（Ninian Home）定製，置於貝里克（Berwickshire ）帕斯頓公館（Paxton House）（見圖1），自此由家族收藏於帕斯頓公館，及後連同拍品編號46（見前頁）售予現藏家。

Recorded in Inventory and Valuation of the Furniture of Paxton House, dated 1828, compiled by John Veitch clerk to William Trotter, Upholsterers in Edinburgh: 

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A mahogany Pembroke table 3ft 2in x 2ft 4in & 2ft 4 high with ogee shaped top and scroll legs.                                          12s',  (Paxton Archives)

Illustrated Alastair Rowan, Paxton House, Berwickshire II, Country Life, August 24 1967, pl.9.

Comparative literature

 Christopher Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, 2 vols, vol 1, pp.273-275.

Anthony Coleridge Chippendale, Interior-Decorator and House- Furnisher, Apollo Magazine, January to June 1963

This table is in excellent condition. The colour and patina are both excellent. The top has some minor old marks and scratches and a small age crack. The colour to the top is very consistent throughout. One end is very dry and dark in colour. The small brass handles vary between the drawer and dummy drawer.
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此別出心裁之桃花心木摺桌由湯瑪斯‧齊本戴爾（Thomas Chippendale）製作，是尼尼安‧奧馬（Ninian Home）約於1775年為其貝里克（Berwickshire）帕斯頓大宅（Paxton House）訂製的作品。齊本戴爾是十八世紀英國首屈一指的家具名匠，而帕斯頓大宅則是其主要委託工作之一。此項委託重要之處，為該工程包攬屋內的全面裝潢陳設，室內佈置為另一位十八世紀後期的傳奇人物──知名設計師羅伯特‧亞當（Robert Adam）負責主要的設計及裝飾。雖然單據上沒有列明這項委託的資料，此桌之品質及設計與齊本戴爾關聯深遠，其製作來源實是無容置疑。根據帕斯頓大宅的1828庫存紀錄，此桌於1967年很可能是存放於會客廳之中。本作品深刻展現了齊本戴爾的製作風格，當中很多設計特徵，一一在他所製的其他桌子找尋得到。桌子的法式風格表露無遺，其獅爪形彎曲桌腳精緻華麗，款式可見於為勞倫斯‧鄧達斯爵士（Sir Lawrence Dundas）而製的一張遊戲桌，置於鄧弗里斯大宅（Dumfries house）的藍色會客廳內。而桌腳上的棕葉紋雕刻同樣於為鄧達斯爵士所製的椅子可尋。此類桌子已證明在近年深受藏家，當中例子包括倫敦蘇富比2003年5月14日「五十年之收藏，喬治時期英國裝飾藝術」拍賣中，拍品編號為39的一張同款式桌子，成交價為128,450英鎊。