Lot 242
EARLY VICTORIAN AMBOYNA, WALNUT, IVORY AND EBONY MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE BY EDWARD HOLMES BALDOCK Y
CIRCA 1850
Auction: Day One | Wed 12th Nov at 10am | Lots 1 to 338
Description
the circular tilt top within a wide band of floral marquetry, raised on a concave triform column, continuing to scroll feet with castors, stamped EHB to underside of the top
Dimensions
117cm diameter, 73cm high
Footnote
The table relates to a group of similar marquetry tables with triform concave-sided pedestals profusely inlaid with floral marquetry on an ebony ground in the Dutch style made popular from the 1820s by Robert Blake, whose firm operated from premises on Tottenham Court Road. A ‘Cabinet inlayer and Buhl manufacturer’, by the 1840s the firm was trading as ‘Blake, Geo. & Brothers, inlayers, etc’ and eventually as George Blake & Co. by the end of the decade. The design is most likely based on one for a 'Grecian style' table by the architect Richard Hicks Bridgens with a triform pedestal base and in-scrolled feet, featured in his Furniture with Candelabra and Interior Decoration, 1st e. 1825 & 1838, pl. 16. There is also a strong link between the Blake manufacturers and Edward Holmes Baldock, who supplied a similar table bearing his cipher EHB to the Dukes of Buccleuch, now in the collection of Temple Newsam, see C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam and Lotherton Hall, Vol II, London, 1978, no.395. Baldock appears to have operated in the manner of a marchand-mercier, rather than maker, supplying luxury goods of all sorts to a list of distinguished clients. A discussion on the relationship between Baldock and the Blake family can be found in E.H.Baldock and the Blake Family: Further Evidence, Martin Levy, in Furniture History Society Newsletter No. 158, May 2005, p.1.
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