An Exceedingly Rare Classical Mahogany Library Table, Boston

A fine 200 year old American Federal period Boston Classical mahogany pedestal center table. circa 1825 Exquisitely hand-crafted in the Northeastern United States in the early 19th ...

An elegant Regency library/centre table, of mahogany and ebony, the well figured top with re-entrant corners and ebony line inlay above a two drawer frieze with original brass knobs ...

Likely Mid Atlantic states. With circular wood top with a conforming frieze with figured mahogany and with drawers with brass knob handles. Raised on a bulbous turned support joined ...

With a new circular green tooled leather top within a banded edge over conforming frieze with alternating false and working drawers all with lions head drawer...

A fine Regency period tilt-top brass inlaid mahogany and calamander library center table. Raised on a concave-sided triform base, with well-modelled cast-brass scrolling feet. Also referred to as a monopodium (table). All in excellent condition, well figured, and of very good rich color. Typical of designs by Thomas Hope (1769 - 1831). This form of antique table is also associated with work by George Bullock (1777 - 1818) and George Oakley (circa 1765 - 1841). Refs: A similar table with a leather insert, in the manner of Thomas Hope, circa 1800 - 1805, was sold in London for £39,650 - December 2010. This early 19th century table is reminiscent of the ‘Grecian’ style that the pioneering collector and designer Thomas Hope (1769-1831) popularized in Britain with the publication of ‘Household Furniture and Interior Decoration’ in 1807. Thos. Hope (banker, born 1769, d. 1831) The furniture manufacturer George Oakley (circa 1765-1841) was greatly influenced by Hope’s designs, and produced fashionable furniture in this style, using brass and star inlays similar to our table on offer. The firm’s designs and craftsmanship earned them royal patronage, and Oakley worked for the Prince Regent at Carlton House, as well as supplying furniture and upholstery for The Mansion House and The Bank of England. His work for the Cheere family - of Papworth Hall, Cambridgeshire, UK - is well documented. The reference to Geo. Oakley relates to a known table of this pattern in calamander wood and brass marquetry of starred-ribbon guilloche, which corresponds to the brass marquetry in a table supplied by Oakley in 1810 to Papworth Hall. Lit: Parker, R. 'History of Papworth Everard...

A very fine quality late George III period mahogany central standing drum top library table, having attractive old gilt tooled leather inset to ...