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Lot 114TP,Y
A Regency brass mounted rosewood and brass inlaid breakfast or centre table attributed to George Oakley (c.1765-1841) 1810-1815
1 July 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,376 inc. premium
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A Regency brass mounted rosewood and brass inlaid breakfast or centre table attributed to George Oakley (c.1765-1841)
1810-1815
The half veneered circular tilt-top with an inlaid border with interspersed stars each centred by an ebonised roundel, with a moulded edge and a frieze with a rope twist moulded lower mount, on a tapering square section, terminating in four acanthus clasp mounted hipped downswept legs each with scrolled tablet-inlaid sides and with a rope twist moulded border, on brass lion paw feet and large castors, 125cm wide x 123.5cm deep x 72cm high, (49in wide x 48 1/2in deep x 28in high)
The half veneered circular tilt-top with an inlaid border with interspersed stars each centred by an ebonised roundel, with a moulded edge and a frieze with a rope twist moulded lower mount, on a tapering square section, terminating in four acanthus clasp mounted hipped downswept legs each with scrolled tablet-inlaid sides and with a rope twist moulded border, on brass lion paw feet and large castors, 125cm wide x 123.5cm deep x 72cm high, (49in wide x 48 1/2in deep x 28in high)
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A virtually identical table to the offered example, albeit one of notably smaller proportions, sold Bonhams, 26 September 2018, lot 199.
The star inlaid border on the top of the present lot is a recurrent characteristic on a great deal of furniture either attributed to, or documented as being executed by, George Oakley. This distinctive type of inlay seems to have first appeared upon pieces produced as part of an Oakley commission for Papworth Hall, Cambridge from circa 1809 onwards.
In C. Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1700-1840, George Oakley is listed at 22 Southside of St Paul's Churchyard when he issued his trade card in 1786. Then Oakley moved his premises to no.35 in 1798 and thereafter operated in various partnerships with Henry Kettle, Thomas Shackleton and John Evans until his death in 1841. He developed a reputation as one of the most original designers of the period and had a fashionable clientele visiting his Bond Street showroom.
George Oakley received a Royal Warrant in 1799 after a visit from Queen Charlotte. And in 1801 the London correspondent on the Journal de Luxus und der Moden (Weimar) wrote 'all people with taste buy their furniture at Oakleys, the most tasteful of the London cabinetmakers'. See M. Jourdain and R. Edwards, Georgian Cabinet Makers, 1944, London, p.74.
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