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A Late Regency Rosewood Centre Table of the Finest Quality with Excellent Carved Detail and Finely Figured Top.

This fine table has its original finely-made brass mounted tilting top mechanism, allowing the table to be placed against the wall when not in use. In the case of this particular table, tilting the top also allows the spectacular bookmatched veneers to be shown off to even greater effect. The rosewood employed on the top of this table is of the highest possible grade of fineness with wonderful figure and variation and depth in colour which has faded gracefully to an exquisite colour.

The table stands on a tripartite platform base with triangular central column and this column is panelled to each side. There are also finely carved scrolls and foliate motifs and the paw feet are also, rather unusually, carved rather than mounted in gilt metal.

The underneath of the table top has the letters St. G B on it and this may be a clue to its provenance, either in terms of its original owner or the maker. The letters are impressed and the way that this has been done is very much in the manner of inventory marks used to inventory furniture in church collections. It is possible that the mark could indicate that the table has been in the collection of a St. G B church in the past. During the course of research we discovered an article on church boundary markers by Mike Horne. These markers were plaques marking the extent of church lands. One for St George's in Bloomsbury, a very important church in the 18th and 19th centuries and featured in prints by Hogarth, uses a very similar form of lettering and is dated 1823. It is just possible that the table might have formed part of the church's collection or that of a similar institution.

Centre tables of this size and quality are not encountered very often.



H 73cm x W 152.5cm x D 152.5cm
H 28¾” x W 60” x D 60”