A fine and rare George III Mahogany Pembroke Table

Attributable to Thomas Chippendale

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A fine and rare George III Mahogany Pembroke Table

Attributable to Thomas Chippendale

English, circa 1775.

Dimensions:
Height: 28 Inches / 71 cm
Length: 34.25 Inches / 87 cm
Width: (Open)37.25 Inches / 34.6 cm
Width: (Closed) 18.5 Inches / 47

Note, of exceptional colour and patination.

The finely figured rectangular top with hinged elliptical drop-leaf flaps above a single frieze drawer retaining its original handles, opposed by a corresponding dummy drawer, the shaped and fluted apron raised on elegant cabriole legs terminating in original brass and leather castors. Executed in richly figured mahogany and conceived in the fashionable French taste of the late 18th century.

The present table displays strong stylistic affinities to a documented Pembroke table supplied for Paxton House, commissioned by Ninian Home and almost certainly supplied by Thomas Chippendale during his engagement with the Home family from 1774 onwards. The exceptional similarity of the veneered top suggests the intriguing possibility that both tables may have originated from the same veneer stock.

The Home family also owned Wedderburn Castle, from which the present table is believed to have descended. A further table attributed to Chippendale the Younger is also recorded at Wedderburn with identical shaped flaps.

A closely related example was illustrated in Alastair Rowan, Paxton House, Berwickshire II, Country Life, 24 August 1967, pl. 9, and later sold anonymously at Sotheby's, London, 10 November 2015, lot 122 (£68,750 including premium). Another comparable table, formerly in the collection of Frederick Poke Esq. and associated with the furniture historian R. W. Symonds, was sold anonymously at Christie's, London, 14 May 2003, lot 39 (£128,450 including premium).