AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHINA TABLE OR CABINET

AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHINA TABLE OR CABINET

IN THE MANNER OF INCE AND MAYHEW, C.1755-60

in 'Chinese Chippendale' style, the rectangular top with a moulded edge and a bowed centre, with four cockpen compartments, each with a hinged door, flanking two concave shelves, the top one with the remains of a pierced gallery, on fret bracketed legs

83cm high, 92.2cm wide, 45.5cm deep

Provenance

Major Edward Croft-Murray, purchased in 1884 in Northampton for £10 and listed in an inventory as 'Cabinet, mahogany, 'Ince & Mayhew' open work Chinese taste, shaped front 2 shelves, lock & key on 6 legs',thence at Perivale, Ryde, Isle of Wight where listed in an inventory in 1926.

From the collection of Edward Croft-Murray CBE (1907-1980).

Catalogue Note

See Ince and Mayhew, The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, pl. XLVI.

For a very similar 'China Table' from the Collection of the Earls of Dysart at Ham House, illustrated in 'The Dictionary of English Furniture by Percy McQuoid and Ralph Edwards, vol.1, p.167, fig.35. This cabinet was sold by Sotheby's, A Collection of English Furniture, Barometers & Clocks, formed by a Gentleman residing in New York', 27th and 28th June 1974, lot 26.

A similar japanned cabinet attributed to William Linnell and probably commissioned by Sir Hugh Smithson, 1st Earl of Northumberland, was sold by Sotheby's, Syon House, 14th May 1997.

See also R. W. Symonds, 'Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, p.37, fig.27.