拍品 69
69
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A REGENCY MAHOGANY BREAKFAST-TABLE

细节
A REGENCY MAHOGANY BREAKFAST-TABLE
Inlaid overall with boxwood and ebonised lines, the rounded rectangular tilt-top crossbanded in rosewood and inlaid with a satinwood band with a reeded edge, on a ring-turned baluster support and four hipped downswept legs with paw feet and sunk castors, with remains of paper depostitory label to the top of the support inscribed 'Hsworth & Co...and Warehousing Depositories LIVERPOOL/, lacking the catch to secure the top when upright, restoration to the baluster support, lacking the handle on the catch
52¼ in. (133 cm.) wide; 28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 39¾ in. (101 cm.) deep

拍品专文

A breakfast-table with similar scrolled legs and massive lion-paw feet is illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 123, fig. 162. The catch is stamped 'BULLOCK'. Another breakfast-table with related legs was illustrated in The Connoisseur, September 1973.