Antique Furniture Direct has dated this Regency Mahogany Pembroke Table to the Regency era.
With a dummy drawer to the opposite side, it can be placed in the centre of a room if desired. The table is raised on four elegantly turned legs terminating in their original brass cup castors. In good condition, this piece would grace any room; it could be used as a laptop table or would work equally well as a lamp table.
Thomas Sheraton in his Cabinet Dictionary of 1803 stated that the function of a deception Pembroke table was ‘to answer the purpose of a pot cupboard, or any other secret use which we would hide from the eye of a stranger’. It is believed to have originated with the firm of Gillows, as a design for a deception table appears in the Gillow Estimate Sketch Books for June/July 1787 (Westminster City Archives 94/44-5).
Construction/Wood:
Mahogany
Condition Report:
Solid and sturdy. Wear and marks commensurate with age. It has some old worm holes to the underneath.
Dimensions:
Width Closed: 43cm
Width Open: 85cm
Depth: 61cm
Height: 74cm
Internal: 30cm Wide x 15cm High x 53cm Deep
Antique Furniture Direct has dated this Regency Mahogany Pembroke Table to the Regency era.
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Regency Mahogany Pembroke Deception Table
