A George III mahogany spider-leg table by Thomas Chippendale, 1768
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March 24, 08:41 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Ge🌜orge III mahogany spider-leg table by Thomas Chippen𝐆dale
1768
tꦡhe rectangular drop-leaf top with gateleg action, on a shaped mahogany frieze to🍨 each short side, on eight slender columnar form turned legs and stretchers ending in pad feet
70.5cm. high, 76cm. wide, 33cm. de𝕴ep ꦅ(closed), 81.5cm. deep (extended)
Inventory, 1885, p. 66, in the 'Chintz Room';
Inventory, 1926, p. 27, in the 'Service Room';
Christopher Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, Vol. II, London, 1978, p. 224, fig. 410.
Employing superb timber, this 'neat' mahogany table is a wonderful example of Chippendale's utilitarian furniture which, through the sheer quality of materials and execution, is at once simple and distinguished. Chippendale supplied this, 'a neat Mahogany 8 leg Table of fine wood', on 9 June 1768 at a cost of £2 2s 0d and a further pair of '2 neat Mahogany Spider leg Tables of gﷺood wood', probably similar in form to those at Dumfries House from 1760 although not necessarily by Chippendale.
For a related example to the present lot, see the spider-leg table sold Christie's London, 31 October 2012, lot 79 (£13,750 ♋with premium).