Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 17th January 2024
Lot 235
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY RENT TABLE
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £2268
Inc. Buyers Premium
Description
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY RENT TABLE
C.1780
the circular top inset with a later green leather surface, above six numbered drawers some with divisions, the base with a hinged door
79.3cm high, 98.8cm diameter
Provenance
The Private Collection of Sir David and Lady Scholey
Provenance
Dreweatts, The Private Collection of Sir David and Lady Scholey, 30th June 2021, lot 85.
Catalogue Note
For a closely related example of table see, Christie's, London, The Legend of Dick Turpin Part I, 9th March 2006, lot 182 (£20,400). A similar form of rent table was held in the Norman Adams Collection, see Christopher Claxton Stevens and Stewart Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Antiques Collectors' Club, 1983, p.110.