A Regency period mahogany sofa table After designs by Thomas Hope and Sheraton
£2,200
Auction: 19 March 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
the rounded rectangular top with reeded edge above three frieze drawers with brass lion mask handles opposed by simulated drawers, on reeded and stiff acanthus carved cross frame end standards and sinuous carved legs headed by leaf paterae and ending in forward facing gilt brass lion paw feet, united by a lotus carved pole stretcher
Dimensions
86cm wide (126cm flaps up), 73cm high, 66cm deep
Footnote
The cross frame leg design is featured in the work of Sheraton and Hope (who favoured Egyptianesque elements and monopaedic lion supports) and found in the cabinet work of Morel & Hughes, and Marsh & Tatham,
Cf. A library table in the Whitbread Collection at Southill Park, Bedfordshire, G.Jackson-Stops, Country Life, 28th April, 1994, pp 62-67.
Literature: Christopher Proudfoot and David Watkin, 'A Pioneer of English Neoclassicism, C.H. Tatham', Country Life, 13/20th April 1972, pp.918-921 and 'The Furniture of C.H. Tatham', Country Life, 8th june 1972, pp. 1481-1486.
Margaret Jourdain, 'Regency Furniture, 1795-1820', 1948, pl.124, fig.130
Ralph Edwards, 'Dictionary of English Furniture', 1954, vol.III, p.262, fig.54
See also Thomas Hope's design for a stool in 'Household Furniture and Interior Decoration', pl.12, fig 4 (publ.1807)