A GEORGE II TRIPOD TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM MASTERS, English, circa 1755
Width: 23 ½ in; 60 cm
Depth: 24 in; 61 cm
Further images
This padouk tripod table of extraordinary design belongs to a very small group of tables with virtually identical bases. So far, only a further four tables with this unusual base have come to light. Two are documented pieces by William Masters, made for the Duke of Atholl at Blair Castle in Perthshire: one of these is a tea table with circular gallery top, and the other is a supper table with octagonal top. The undocumented third table has a plain circular top and was advertised by Edwin H. Herzog in Connoisseur magazine in May 1976. All these three are made of commonly used mahogany. The fourth is made of cherry wood, has a round top and was formerly in the Percival D. Griffiths Collection. The current example is made of padouk wood, a rarer and more costly timber.
Provenance
Private collection, USA.Literature
R. W. Symonds, ‘Parquetry Furniture of Laburnum & Cherry Wood’, Old Furniture magazine, May-August 1929, p. 12.
Arthur Oswald, ‘Blair Castle Perthshire III’, Country Life, 18 November 1949, pp. 1506-10.
F. Lewis Hinckley, A Directory of Antique Furniture, 1953, p. 171, illus. 526.
Anthony Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, 1968, illus. 398.
Connoisseur, May 1976; advertisement with Edwin H. Herzog, London.
Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert, The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, p. 585.
