A GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARTIST'S TABLE C.1755-60 the moulded edge hinged top formally with a rest

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY ARTIST'S TABLE

C.1755-60

the moulded edge hinged top formally with a rest, on a twin ratchet support, with a frieze drawer fitted with a baize lined sliding cover, the sides with pull-out candle slides, above fret brackets and stylised swags which disguise the mechanism for one of the ratchet's, on in-curved legs and leather roller castors

78.3cm high, 63.4cm wide, 50cm deep

Literature

For a similar table that was in the collection of Sir Sydney Greville, see Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Vol. III, p. 186, fig.4. Edwards states that 'an artist's table with 'upward and inward rising desks' is said by J. T. Smith in 'Nollekens and his Times' to have been brought into fashion by John Cobb, and the painter Nathaniel Dance considered the tables so useful that he easily persuaded Cobb to allow him to paint his portrait in exchange for one.'