A FINE WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT DRESSING TABLE

A FINE WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT DRESSING TABLE

C.1690

the quartered, feather and crossbanded top above three feather banded frieze drawers with original brass swing handles and inside moulded frames, above an arched and cockbeaded apron, on tapering octagonal legs united by a scrolling 'X' stretcher centred by a turned finial, and on Braganza style feet

72.5cm high, 66.5cm wide, 43cm deep

Provenance

The Roderick and Valentine Butler Collection.

Catalogue Note

See Christie's, The Parry Collection, London, 24th April 1997, lot 260 and Christie's, The Property of the Late Mr and Mrs Melvyn Rollason, 3^rd July 1997, lot 175 for a reading table and a lowboy of related forms. See also Adam Bowett, 'English Furniture 1660-1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne', p. 287, pl. 9:30 for the lowboy from the Rollason Collection, where referred to as a dressing table, and Ralph Edwards, 'The Dictionary of English Furniture', vol. 3, pl. 225, fig. 2 for a very similar table.

Exhibited

British Antique Dealers Association Exhibition, ‘England at the time of William and Mary’, Grosvenor House, London, 1989, and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, item 21.