A fine and rare small George I mahogany table of diminutive proportions, circa 1725. England
The top, moulded to all sides and with reentrant corners sits above a cavetto frieze fitted with a finely lined drawer raised on scrolled ear cabriole legs, carved to the knee with a shell and pendent terminating on pad feet.
The table is moulded to all four sides with four-eared cabriole legs and cavetto moulded to the back. This would suggest that the table could also be used as a centre table or silver table.
It should be noted that this is one of the smallest examples of its type and of very good colour with rich age-patinated surfaces.
Small single-drawer tables such as this are usually associated as bed-chamber tables and dressing room tables, however, they had a multitude of uses in Georgian homes and appear in inventories as parlour tables, passage tables, library tables, entrance hall tables or anteroom tables and pier tables.
Further reading
Early Georgian Furniture
...by Adam Bowett, pages 234-237.
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Dateline of this antique is 18th Century
Height is 71cm (28.0inches)Width is 66cm (26.0inches)Depth is 43.5cm (17.1inches)
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