Gary Wright Antiques Ltd has dated this piece to the Regency era.
The frieze with a central tablet and scrolled corner brackets having beaded mouldings; raised on a square tapering column terminating with a gadrooned moulding on a concave sided platform base; raised on scrolled feet housing the original brass castors. Very rare being in burr yew and having a fabulous colour.
English circa 1825
Very good condition
Dimensions (ins) 36.75 wide x 18.25 deep x 28.5 high; open 36.25 deep
Bristol; cabinet maker and upholder (fl. 1784–1831)
Recorded living in the parish of St Augustine, 1784. In Terill St, 1793–95 and St Michael's Hill, 1799–1801. After 1805 the firm traded from 35 Broadmead and is recorded as Robert James & Co., 1805–06; James, Fry & Co., 1807–13; and once more reverted to Robert James & Co., 1814–15. From 1816 reverted to the pre-1805 style of Robert James. In 1818 he was declared bankrupt, but despite this the business quickly recovered and was probably at its height of achievement in the 1820s. In 1821 he advertised himself as the ‘Manufacturer of the Beautiful Polyanthus Wood’. In the following year he received a Royal patent and thereafter described himself as ‘Manufacturer in British Woods to his Majesty’. Clearly at this stage he was using woods with a wide range of colour variation and intricate grain patterns. He stated in an advertisement that ‘his present manufactured stock of POLYANTHUS AND OTHER BRITISH WOODS … will be found to excel any other yet offered, for beauty of Colours, and variety to the imagination, exhibiting on its highly polished surface, Woods, Landscapes, and in some instances, Animals, Fish &c are represented, which has a grand and pleasing effect’. The Duke of York also appears to have patronised James in 1826. In the 1820s he labelled some of his products, and a number of examples are known. These include a secretaire bookcase, a yew-wood table, a sofa table, yew-wood cross-banded with burr wood and a large pedestal table veneered in burr oak and elm, and a tea caddy veneered in rosewood and burr yew, in the BM Coll. A card table by this maker is illustrated in Regional Furniture (1993), p. 49.
Gary Wright Antiques Ltd has dated this piece to the Regency era.
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Regency Burr Yew Card Table; by the Esteemed Cabinet Maker Robert James
