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The finely figured top above a fluted frieze with a carved central urn with draped swags raised on four fluted legs.
Designed in the neo-classical taste, this elegant table may be compared with a pair of tables commissioned from Thomas Chippendale the younger by Ninian Home for Paxton House, Berwickshire between 1789 and 1791.
Of semi-elliptical form, the mahogany tops of these tables are inlaid with a fan pattern above a cross-banded frieze, the turned legs appearing to be identical to one sold in sothebys New York on 18thOctober 2006, lot 271 and similar to those on the this table.
One of five designs from sketches of Ornament by Thomas Chippendale the younger, published the year after his father's death in 1779 shows an urn of almost identical form to this table: a reeded finial above an urn with a guilloche- carved band a partially reeded body on a plain socle with an out scrolled top . Rather than the husk swags shown in the design ,so typical of the Chippendale workshop this tables urn has drapery swags, regarding the reeded decoration Ivan Hall remarks in The Engravings of Thomas Chippendale Jnr 1779 both father and son preferred reeded urns to those with more conventional fluting as can be seen in four of the five plates and at [Harewood, Burton Constable and Nostell] The Journal of the Furniture History Society, vol Xl 1975 pp 56-58 figs 123-127.See also The Connoisseur, August 1972, Chippendale Senior and Junior at Paxton Christopher Gilbert pp 254-268, fig 21 Lot 271