A RARE AND UNUSUAL GEORGE III BURR-MAPLE, FUSTIC, EBONY AND HOLLY HARLEQUIN PEMBROKE TABLE BY MAYHEW AND INCE, CIRCA 1772.
The top with panels of burr-maple cross-banded with fustic, the frieze with a candle-slide and a drawer to either side, on square tapering legs inlaid with ebony and holly simulating fluting. The top lifting (by means of a loper) to reveal drawers and pigeonholes. Retaining it’s original lacquered brass laurel wreath handles. The original locks stamped on the inside E GASCOIGNE.
PROVENANCE: Almost certainly Archibald Douglas (later 1st Lord Douglas), 104 Pall Mall, St James’s;
thence by descent to his granddaughter and heiress Lucy Montagu-Scott who married 11th Earl Home...
Category
18th Century Antique Maple Drop-leaf and Pembroke Tables
MaterialsEbony, Maple, Holly