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GBP 12,000 - GBP 18,000
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A GEORGE II BRASS-INLAID PADOUK AND GUADELOUPE OCTAGONAL TRIPOD TABLE
MID-18TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF JOHN CHANNON
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Lot Essay
The tea china-table, with baluster-railed 'tray' top, is designed in the George II Roman style and filigreed with French-fashioned brass (boulle) inlay. Its pedestal column stands on an altar-tripod, whose truss-scrolled 'claw' relates to those of various harlequin tables that accompany a brass-enriched cabinet illustrated in the 1730s trade-sheet of Thomas Potter (C. Gilbert and T. Murdoch, John Channon and brass-inlaid furniture 1730-1760, London, 1993, fig. 11).
A golden wreath of Roman acanthus flowers the octagonal tops, while foliated and lozenge-fretted cartouches issue from its interlaced border of padouk wood. Very similar brass inlay inspired the boulle enrichments of the Corinthian-columned 'Courtenay' bookcases supplied for Powderham Castle, Devon and bearing the brass name-plate of the St. Martin's Lane cabinet-maker, John Channon (d. 1779). The bookcases, inventoried in 1762 as 'Two Manchineel [padouk] Book Cases carv'd gilded and inlaid with Brass', have been described as the 'Rosetta stone' for Channon furniture (ibid, figs. 134 and 135). It is therefore possible that this 'pillar and claw' tea-table could have been supplied by John Channon at this period. An almost identical table sold at Christie's London, 27 November 2003, lot 5 (£139,650 including premium).
This lot was probably bought in the 1930s by Solomon Joseph Gubbay, a rope and jute merchant, who formed an eclectic collection of furniture, much of which has been at Christie's, London (see lots 83-84, 18 April 1996) and also a futher table also attributed to John Channon, in padouk with similar brass-inlay which was sold Christie's, London, 27 November 2003, lot 5 (£139,650, including premium).
A golden wreath of Roman acanthus flowers the octagonal tops, while foliated and lozenge-fretted cartouches issue from its interlaced border of padouk wood. Very similar brass inlay inspired the boulle enrichments of the Corinthian-columned 'Courtenay' bookcases supplied for Powderham Castle, Devon and bearing the brass name-plate of the St. Martin's Lane cabinet-maker, John Channon (d. 1779). The bookcases, inventoried in 1762 as 'Two Manchineel [padouk] Book Cases carv'd gilded and inlaid with Brass', have been described as the 'Rosetta stone' for Channon furniture (ibid, figs. 134 and 135). It is therefore possible that this 'pillar and claw' tea-table could have been supplied by John Channon at this period. An almost identical table sold at Christie's London, 27 November 2003, lot 5 (£139,650 including premium).
This lot was probably bought in the 1930s by Solomon Joseph Gubbay, a rope and jute merchant, who formed an eclectic collection of furniture, much of which has been at Christie's, London (see lots 83-84, 18 April 1996) and also a futher table also attributed to John Channon, in padouk with similar brass-inlay which was sold Christie's, London, 27 November 2003, lot 5 (£139,650, including premium).
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MID-18TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF JOHN CHANNON
A GEORGE II BRASS-INLAID PADOUK AND GUADELOUPE OCTAGONAL TRIPOD TABLE
Estimate: GBP 12,000 - 18,000
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