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Lot Essay
The tea or 'China Table' corresponds to a design published by Thomas Chippendale in The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1762, pl. LII.
The table may have been supplied by a firm such as Gillows, who made tables in the 18th and early 19th centuries based on designs taken from The Director. The firm supplied a China table in 1761 to Ralph Bell of Thirsk, the design of which borrows heavily from Chippendale, and the same pattern was executed again in 1828, described as 'A Salisbury Antique Table', for Gillows' London partners Ferguson & Co. (Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. I, PP. 250 - 253). Even in the early 20th century Gillows were making tables described as 'Chippendale' or which featured the sort of overtly rococo decoration characteristic of the mid- 18th century (Examples of Furniture & Decoration by Gillows, Waring & Gillow catalogue, London, p. 149, P6137A and p.150, P5073a respectively) .
The table may have been supplied by a firm such as Gillows, who made tables in the 18th and early 19th centuries based on designs taken from The Director. The firm supplied a China table in 1761 to Ralph Bell of Thirsk, the design of which borrows heavily from Chippendale, and the same pattern was executed again in 1828, described as 'A Salisbury Antique Table', for Gillows' London partners Ferguson & Co. (Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. I, PP. 250 - 253). Even in the early 20th century Gillows were making tables described as 'Chippendale' or which featured the sort of overtly rococo decoration characteristic of the mid- 18th century (Examples of Furniture & Decoration by Gillows, Waring & Gillow catalogue, London, p. 149, P6137A and p.150, P5073a respectively) .