Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 12th April 2017
Lot 119
An early George III mahogany tea table by Philip Bell
Estimate £500 - £700
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Description
An early George III mahogany tea table by Philip Bell, the hinged fold-over top on a single gate support with a frieze drawer, with a paper trade label inscribed 'Philip Bell CABINETMAKER Upholders & Undertakers at No. 23 St. Paul's Church Yard LONDON', with egg and dart mouldings on chamfered legs and later brass castors, 75cm high, 91.5cm wide, 45.5cm deep.
Philip Bell was a cabinet maker and upholder working between 1758-74. He was based at St. Paul's Churchyard and was successor to Elizabeth Bell. The trade label on this tea table was used c.1770-74. See Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, p.103 pl.109 for an identical label found on a medicine chest now at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.