THE GRAHAM LODGE RENT TABLE

A George III satinwood rent table.
Note: The table retains the original leather insert with its central well and concealed sprung lock. The brass handles are of later date.
This table belongs to a very small group of rent tables made in satinwood. Only two other examples are known. One, featured in the 1961 Grosvenor House Fair handbook, is nearly identical in outline. The other is in the collection at Stourhead House, Wiltshire, England.

Literature: Grosvenor House Antiques Fair handbook, London, 1961, p. 26; an almost identical example, very probably from the same workshop, exhibited by H. C. Baxter and Sons, London.
Illustrated:
Ronald Phillips Ltd., ‘Fine Antique English Furniture’, catalogue, 2008, pp. 12-13.

Provenance

Henry Woodyer, Graham Lodge, Grafham, Surrey, England.
By descent to Sir Richard Lake, British Columbia, Canada.
Richard L. Lake, Esq., Canada.