EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING TABLE
MID 18TH CENTURY AND LATER
comprising two demi-lune ends and two drop-leaf centre sections with gateleg supports, the rounded rectangular top over a plain frieze raised on tapered legs ending in pad feet
518cm long, 75cm high, 156cm deep fully extended
Sir James Clerk, 3rd Baronet of Penicuik (1709 – 1782), Penicuik House, Midlothian. Thence by decent
Note: Two potential entries for the current lot appear in the house accounts. The first, described simply as ‘a Mahoganie table to hold 16 or 18’ was invoiced for £3 15s by Daniel Miller, joiner, 20 April 1733, but this predates the furnishing of Penicuik House by thirty-five years. The other possibility is a bill for £7 7s 11d billed by William Hamilton for ‘4 Mahogany planks & 2 Cutts measuring in all 26ft. 10in.', 23 July 1770. The style of the table suggests the earlier date, but could be explained that the table was made by local joiners to the older style as a matter of choice. The same journal entry from 1770 also lists a payment to William Tait and Robert Euart for ’Making a Large table'. One further section was made later in the 20th century to extend the table further.