A GEORGE III PEMBROKE TABLE BY GEORGE SIMSON, English, circa 1790
Width (open): 40 in; 102 cm
Width (closed): 21 in; 53.5 cm
Depth: 30 ½ in; 77.5 cm
Note: The harewood table retains the original leather castors.
A virtually identical table, possibly the pair, and labelled ‘George Simson’, is illustrated in the Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840.
Note: The harewood table retains the original leather castors.
A virtually identical table, possibly the pair, and labelled ‘George Simson’, is illustrated in the Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840.
Provenance
Mr. Charles Bertram Thomson, Plymouth, England, b. 1875, by descent
to his son;
Mr. Lewis Charles Thomson, and by direct descent to;
Private collection, England.
Literature
Christopher Gilbert, A Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture
1700-1840, 1996, p. 425, fig. 850.
John Gloag, A Short Dictionary of Furniture, 1952, p. 502.
