Description
A George III mahogany serpentine front work table, with rosewood crossbanding, the three quarter gallery top with a lift-up screen having a distressed silk panel, the frieze with a kingwood banded slide with red leather inset, fitted later handles, above a false drawer, repeated to the left, the right side with a drawer with divisions for pens and ink, all fitted gilt brass handles, on cabriole legs united by an undertier, 28.75in (73cm) h, 23in (58.5cm) w, 14in (35.5cm) d. Some veneers replaced or missing, some moulding off, some present. This form of table is derived from a French pattern introduced by Pierre Langlois in the 1750's. It was later used by makers such as John Cobb and Thomas Chippendale. See The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale by Christopher Gilbert, 1978, p.238, pl.436 for a similar example in tulipwood and rosewood, 1766, Nostell Priory.
