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AN WILLIAM IV WALNUT, EBONY, AMARANTH AND SYCAMORE MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE CIRCA 1835-40 The circular tilt-top centred by a spray of flowers in coloured woods and ivory and with an ebony border of scrolling foliage, on a spreading and similarly inlaid tripartite pedestal with scrolled feet and iron castors 29 in. (74 cm.) high; 39 in. (99 cm.) diam'.
The Victorian pattern for such a 'Marqueterie Centre Table', with hollow-sided and Vitruvian wave-scrolled 'altar' or 'candelabrum' pedestal, appears to have been invented in the early 1830's by the architect Richard Bridgens and featured in his Furniture with candelabra and Interior Decoration, 1st ed. 1825 & 1838, which advertised his recent return from service as Superintendent of Public Works in the West Indies. Its 'Louis Quatorze' marquetry on an ebony ground is executed in the Dutch fashion adopted in the 1820's by the Tottenham Court Road 'Cabinet inlayer and Buhl manufacturer' Robert Blake. The firm, which had been trading in the early 1840's as Blake, Geo. & Brothers, inlayers, etc' in Tottenam Court Road and Mount Street, Mayfair were renamed George Blake & Co. in the late 1840's (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, Leeds, 1996, p.18; and M.P.Levy, Furniture History Society Newsletter, no. 158, May 2005). The form of the base of this table relates to tables supplied by Edward Holmes Baldock, one of which was produced for The Duke of Buccleuch in 1840, and was sold by The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, Dalkeith House, Scotland, Christie's, London, 1 April 1971, lot 43. It is now at Temple Newsam House, Leeds (C. Gilbert Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, vol. II, London, 1978, no. 395).
A related table attributed to George Blake was supplied to King Louis Philippe when living at Claremont, Surrey, around 1848, and was sold anonymously Christie’s, London, 23 November 2006, lot 123 (£33,600 incl’ premium), another was sold anonymously Christie’s, London, 7 June 2007, lot 157 (£27,600 incl’ premium).