A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND RARE REGENCY PERIOD CIRCULAR LIBRARY TABLE FROM THE WORKSHOPS OF JOHN McLEAN

Provenance

Most probably the Earls of Jersey (until 1934).
Sir Arthur Cecil McWatters, CIE, (1880-1965), ex Indian Civil Service, who resided at St Giles's House, St Giles's Street, Oxford (1935-1965), and thence by descent.

Description / Expertise

Executed in figured and faded rosewood, the revolving crossbanded leather top with boxwood stringing and with a reeded gilt-brass edge moulding, the frieze fitted with two short drawers and two wedge-shaped drawers, all drawers with the original gilt-brass 'tongue and dart' mouldings, the original gilt-brass lion mask handles, the frieze interspersed with inset rectangular panels of gilt-brass trophy mounts, being in the form of satyr masks surmounting musical instruments, the top supported on a turned central column, the three outward-sweeping legs having reeded gilt-brass mouldings terminating in the original gilt-brass box castors.