Lot 35
FINE EARLY GEORGE III BRASS INLAID MAHOGANY SUPPER TABLE BY FREDERICK HINTZ
CIRCA 1765
Auction: 30 September 2015 at 11:00 BST
Description
the decafoil lobed and dished top outlined in brass line inlay, the central quatrefoil dished recess with shell and husk brass inlay, raised on tripod cabriole legs ending in raised pointed pad feet
Dimensions
55cm diameter, 69cm high
Footnote
Note:
This table, inlaid with brass in the 'boule' fashion, relates directly to work produced by a small group of emigrant cabinet-makers who came to London during the reign of George II. The immigrant Moravian cabinet-maker Johann Friedrich Hintz, who traded at 'The Porcupine', Newport Street in London, is known to have produced tables of this design. Examples of Hintz' work are illustrated in Christopher Gilbert and Tessa Murdoch, John Channon and Brass-inlaid Furniture 1730-1760, 1993, pl. XXIV and figs. 149-150. Hintz advertised sale of 'A Choice Tea-Boards, etc. all curiously made and inlaid with fine Figures of Brass and Mother of Pearl. They will be sold at a very reasonable rate, the maker Frederick Hintz, designing soon to go abroad' (G.Beard and C.Gilbert, eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 434). In addition to Hintz, John Channon and the firm of Landall and Gordon are also known to have produced work of this nature, but Hintz is regarded as the foremost exponent of this style of workmanship.