ATTRIBUTABLE TO JAMES NEWTON ( 1773 - 1821 )

Of Freestanding Form  , constructed from Goncalo Alves and Ebony , in Part Ebonised and Gilt , Adorned with Finely Chased Bronzed Mounts , and Marbles , Rising from Castor Mounted Claw Footed Scrolled Legs in the Regency Neo- Grecian Fashion , Having a Conjoining Platform , Incorporating an Upholstered Footstool, and Adorned with Bronze Anthemions  at the Angles , the Octagonal Italian Specimen Marble Top is Inset Within an Ebony Border Decorated with a Running Band of Brass Palmettes ,the Frieze Incorporating a Cedar Lined Lockable Drawer Dressed with Bronze Stylised Anthemion Mounts and Fitted with an Easel Slide , Baize Lined, with a Smaller Drawer Housing an Inkwell , Sander and a Quill Tray , below , a Fitted Work Slide. Formerly with a Work Basket .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CIRCA 1815

Dimensions  H 29.5 in/ 74 cm       W   33.5 in / 84.5     D 25.25 in / 64 cm

 

JAMES NEWTON .....Upholder and Cabinet Maker , Trained in the Celebrated Workshops of Lawrence Fell and William Turton - Business Rivals of the Great Thomas Chippendale- and , in the Tradition of Ambitious Men, Married the Daughter of the Latter , Which in Part Accounts for his Meteoric Rise to Promonence , Executing Commissions , Inter Alia , for Matthew Boulton at Soho House , the Earl of Jersey at Osterly , and Sir Christopher Heathcote,

 

MARBLE INSET TOP

The Carrara White Marble Ground Incorporates Specimens of Lapis Lazuli , Antico Rossi , Giallo Sienna , Cipollono , Mandolato Rosso , Brecciato , Bigo Antico, Inter Alia.

 

PROVENANCE    The Estate of Lady Ann Babington , Kelso , Roxburghshire , Sale Held on 12 and 13 November 1946 , Sold to Shirley Neame .

 

EXHIBITED          The Regency Festival Exhibition , Brighton Pavilion 1948

LITERATURE       The Regency Festival . Regency Exhibition Catalogue . Brighton Royal Pavillion 1948 ( ed Clifford Musgrave ), p 38, no 173 .

                              Ellwood , Giles 1995 ." James Newton " Furniture History . 31 . 129-205

                              Reade , Brian Edmund. Regency Antiques . S I Batsford, 1953 , p 46, pl 42

                              Gilbert , Christopher and Geoffry Beard , Dictionary of English Furniture Makers  1660 - 1840 . London Furniture History Society , 1986

 

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