A GEORGE IV BRASS MOUNTED AMBOYNA AND GILTWOOD CENTRE TABLE BY WILLIAM RIDDLE, English, circa 1830
Height: 2 ft 4½ in; 72.5 cm
Diameter: 5 ft; 152.5 cm
Diameter: 5 ft; 152.5 cm
4464061
£50,000 - £100,000
Note: The table retains virtually all of its original finish, including the gilding applied to limewood, the preferred timber for fine carving, and the finely cast brass moulding to the...
Note: The table retains virtually all of its original finish, including the gilding applied to limewood, the preferred timber for fine carving, and the finely cast brass moulding to the top.
The platform is stamped ‘W. Riddle’ to the underside.
This table belongs to a small group of virtually identical tables in various sizes, all sharing the same finely carved gilded details as well as the use of wonderfully mellow amboyna veneers.
The table is very similar to one formerly in the John Bedford Collection and illustrated in Christopher Gilbert’s book on labelled London furniture.
Provenance
Thomas Coulborn & Sons Ltd., London, England;
Private collection, England;
Ronald Phillips Ltd., London, England;
Private collection, England.
Literature
Christopher Gilbert, A Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700–1840, 1996, p. 390, fig. 767.
Ronald Phillips Ltd., ‘Antique English Furniture’, catalogue, 2013, pp. 132–3.
Illustrated:
Ronald Phillips Ltd., ‘Antique English Furniture’, catalogue, 2015, pp. 156–7.
