Pembroke table
attributed to William Ince & John Mayhew (fl. 1759-99)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1780
Materials
Oak, tulipwood, fustic, mahogany, satinwood and a variety of tropical hardwoods, brass
Measurements
71 x 81 x 81 cm
Place of origin
London
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Saltram, Devon
NT 871333
Summary
An inlaid satinwood Pembroke table, English, circa 1785, attributed to Ince & Mayhew, London (fl. 1759-1803). Inlaid to the top with a patera against a black ground, within a satinwood circle and a variety of inlaid motives and reserves. The top's edge inlaid with a delicate run of anthemion-type flowers. One frieze fitted with a drawer inlaid with a distinctive scaly wyvern with curly tail set against a darker rectangular reserve. The legs square-section and tapering and banded, and with brass caps and castors.
Full description
This very fine table has been attributed to Ince & Mayhew on the basis of its similarity, in terms of decoration, to a 'wider group of furniture with documentary links to Mayhew & Ince'. This group includes a commode in the Lady Lever collection, a cylinder writing table formerly at the Durdans, Epsom, and a small group of furniture at Badminton. Both the commode and the writing table are prominently inlaid with a wyvern. (Megan Wheeler, 2017, adapted from Lucy Wood, Catalogue of Commodes (1994).)
Provenance
Date of introduction to Saltram not recorded but at Saltram by 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877 - 1951), 4th Earl of Morley and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.
Makers and roles
attributed to William Ince & John Mayhew (fl. 1759-99), cabinetmaker
References
Wood, 1994: Lucy Wood, The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, pp. 226 - 235 and Colour Plate 29