Details
The edge carved with overlapping leaves over a frieze carved with stiff leaves, beading and gadrooning flanked by paterae, on turned and fluted legs, the underside with an applied Ronald Phillips trade label numbered '11624'
28 in. (71.5 cm.) high, 3814 in. (97.5 cm.) wide, 18 1/2 in. (47 cm.) deep
Provenance
Mrs. Stuart Duncan; Sotheby's Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 25 September 1965, lot 357.
The Property of a Gentleman; Christie's, New York, 30 April 2007, lot 70.
Acquired from Ronald Phillips, London, in 2009.
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Lot Essay


While the design of this table appears to be unique, certain design fea­tures can be found on furniture supplied by the Berkeley Square part­nership of William Ince and John Mayhew. Carved details such as the tapering fluted supports, beading, long leaves and spiral-fluted and shaped feet feature on a commode which was almost certainly supplied by the firm to the 9th Earl of Winchilsea for Burley-on-the-Hill (illustrat­ed in R. Edwards, ed., The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., London, 1954, vol. II, fig. 56), sold Christie's London, 6 July 1989, lot 147. Substantial payments to the firm amounting to over £2,600 are recorded from 1772 to 1776 (Leicester Record Office). Sunflower pater­ae with beaded surrounds and fluted tapering legs appear on furniture supplied for the 4th Duke of Marlborough in circa 1775 (see H. Roberts, 'Nicely Fitted Up': Furniture for the 4th Duke of Marlborough, Furniture History, 1994, p.138, fig. 28).
The table's elegant legs, with herm-tapered columns capped by spiraled flutes, correspond to a pattern in the French/antique fashion pub­lished in Thomas Sheraton's, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793 (pt. 111, pl. 35).

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