Each serpentine top with a molded edge, formerly with a brass rail to the back, the fluted friezes each centering a tablet carved with scrolling acanthus, the flowerhead-carved rounded corners over fluted tapering legs, one with an old paper label tacked to its underside, inscribed 'No 41'
35¹⁄₂ in. (90.5 cm.) high, 72 in. (183 cm.) wide, 35 in. (89 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 November 1984, lot 153.
The property of a private collector; Christie's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 165.
Acquired from Partridge, London, in 2003.

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Certain design features on these tables ,such as the rounded corners embellished with sunflower paterae and tapering fluted supports, feature on a commode from the Arthur Leidesdorf Collection sold Sotheby's, London, 27-28 June 1974, lot 101. The Leidesdorf commode itself corresponds to another larger example with swag-carved embellishments, which was almost certainly supplied by Ince and Mayhew to the 9th Earl of Winchilsea for Burley-on-the-Hill after he succeeded to the title in 1769 (illustrated in R. Edwards, ed., The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1954, vol. II, fig. 56), and sold Christie's London, 6 July 1989, lot 147. Substantial payments to the firm amounting to over £2,600 are recorded from 1772 to 1776 (Leicester Record Office).