A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND GILT BRONZE MOUNTED SIDE TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE OAKLEY, CIRCA 1810 93cm high, 252cm wide, 76.5cm deep This fine table can be attributed to George Oakley (d.1840), who worked in partnership with various cabinet-makers including Henry Kettle, George Shackleton and John Evans, producing high quality furniture in the fashionable Grecian taste and specializing in 'buhl' inlay (C. Gilbert and G. Beard, eds., Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, pp.658-660). His extensive enterprise earned the accolades of the Royal Family as noted after their visit in 1799: 'the Royal family, with the Prince and Princess of Orange did Mr. Oakley the honour of viewing his Printed Furniture Warehouse in New Bond Street; when her Majesty, the Duke and Duchess of York, and the Princesses highly approved of the splendid variety which has justly attracted the notice of the fashionable world' (Morning Chronicle). This reputation spread abroad where an 1804 newspaper article published in Weimar, Germany stated: 'all people with taste buy their furniture at Oakley's'. A sideboard and side table attributed to his firm, and of the same design, are in the Ballroom of the Mansion house, described as a 'capital mahogany sideboard supported on a stand, reeded legs and carved and bronzed paw feet, with antique bronze heads'. An almost identical table is in Royal Dining Room, Palace of Holyroodhouse. The Royal Dining Room at the Palace of Holyroodhouse was first used as a dining room by Queen Victoria. Today the Royal Family uses this room for formal dinners. An almost identical table was sold Christie's, Important English Furniture, Property from the Collection of Mrs Sydell Ballon and the Estate of Frederick Ballon, 9th April 2003, Lot 27 (£33,460).
A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND GILT BRONZE MOUNTED SIDE TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE OAKLEY, CIRCA 1810 93cm high, 252cm wide, 76.5cm deep This fine table can be attributed to George Oakley (d.1840), who worked in partnership with various cabinet-makers including Henry Kettle, George Shackleton and John Evans, producing high quality furniture in the fashionable Grecian taste and specializing in 'buhl' inlay (C. Gilbert and G. Beard, eds., Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, pp.658-660). His extensive enterprise earned the accolades of the Royal Family as noted after their visit in 1799: 'the Royal family, with the Prince and Princess of Orange did Mr. Oakley the honour of viewing his Printed Furniture Warehouse in New Bond Street; when her Majesty, the Duke and Duchess of York, and the Princesses highly approved of the splendid variety which has justly attracted the notice of the fashionable world' (Morning Chronicle). This reputation spread abroad where an 1804 newspaper article published in Weimar, Germany stated: 'all people with taste buy their furniture at Oakley's'. A sideboard and side table attributed to his firm, and of the same design, are in the Ballroom of the Mansion house, described as a 'capital mahogany sideboard supported on a stand, reeded legs and carved and bronzed paw feet, with antique bronze heads'. An almost identical table is in Royal Dining Room, Palace of Holyroodhouse. The Royal Dining Room at the Palace of Holyroodhouse was first used as a dining room by Queen Victoria. Today the Royal Family uses this room for formal dinners. An almost identical table was sold Christie's, Important English Furniture, Property from the Collection of Mrs Sydell Ballon and the Estate of Frederick Ballon, 9th April 2003, Lot 27 (£33,460).
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