ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER PETER -- SUPPLIER TO DUMFRIES HOUSE

 

                                                                                               

 

        EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

 

 

 RARE    " Pair "  of Scottish Early Georgian Period Mahogany Side -  Supper Tables of Unique  Recatangular Form Relating Closely in Design to its Commonly Found Circular Tripod Table . The Good Sized Slim and Rounded Edge Top Resting Upon the Simplest Circular Pillar ( Tapering Upwards ) and Standing Upon a Tripod of Highly Arched Pad Footed Feet .

 

The Tables are of a Distinct Design for use as Sidetables Each Having Opposing Clip Tipping Mechanisms allowing the Tables to be Used Side by Side as a Covenient Supper Table .

 

NOTE ...........  AT DUMFRIES HOUSE THOMAS CHIPPENDALE and ALEXANDER  PETER  BOTH SUPPLIED MUCH OF THE FURNITURE INCLUDING A SIMILAR SINGLE RECTANGULAR TABLE AS SEEN IN CHRISTIES DUMFRIES CATALOGUE 12th JULY 2007 ILLUSTRATED PAGE 62 ,  LOT 8 . LITERATURE  1795  INVENTORY . HALL .  ( PURCHASED FOR THE NATION WITH THE GUIDANCE AND HELP FROM  HRH PRINCE CHARLES  THE DUKE OF WALES )

 

Condition .......Having the Most Glorious Untouched  Patinated Surface suitable for the Most Earnest Collector 

 

Note...................In all our Sixty Years of Fine Furniture Dealing we have Never Seen A Convertible Pair of Tables of this Early Period .

 

Provenance ......Dunrobin Castle Scotland is the Historic Home of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland Scotland

 

 

Reference 5863

 

 

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