Adam's Country House Collections 12th & 13th October 2020

194 Country House Collections 564 A FINE REGENCY ROSEWOOD, CUT BRASS AND GILT BRONZE MOUNTED CENTRE OR BREAKFAST TABLE, IN THE MANNER OF GEORGE OAKLEY, LONDON, the circular top crossbanded with calamander and inlaid with brass stars on three downswept supports united by a tri-form stretcher mounted with a central patera on anthemion and lion-paw cast feet, 135cm wide 135cm wide x 135cm deep x 74cm high, (53in wide x 53in deep x 29in high) € 20,000 – 30,000 George Oakley, who was amongst the leading specialist manufacturers of black calamander and rosewood furniture, ormo- lu-enriched in the French fashion, is first recorded as trading at 22 Southside of St Paul’s Churchyard in 1786. He moved to no. 35 in 1798 before entering into a series of partnerships with Henry Kettle, Thomas Shackleton and John Evans who he remained with until his death in 1741. Besides Papworth Hall his other documented commissions were for the Prince Regent at Carlton House, The Mansion House and The Bank of England. Not only was Oakley distinguished as a supplier of fashionable ‘buhl’ or cut-brass inlaid furniture but he also achieved a reputation for a high standard of craftsmanship and originality of design. His high standing amongst Regency furniture makers was cemented in 1799 when he received the Royal Warrant from Queen Charlotte as noted in the The Morning Chronicle of May 1799: ‘…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’ (see C. Gilbert, The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1700-1840, London 1986) 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 Cabi - net-Makers, London 1944, p74). Day II LIVE AUCTION: Tuesday 13 th October 2020 starting at 11am