Drum table
John McLean & Son
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1800 - circa 1810
Materials
Pine, oak, rosewood veneers, deal, oak, leather, brass, gilt metal
Measurements
73.5 x 107.5 cm
Place of origin
58 Upper Marylebone Street, London
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871428
Summary
A rosewood and gilt metal-mounted drum table, or library table, bearing a trade label for John McLean & Son of Marylebone Street, London, circa 1800 - 1810. The circular top inset with gilt-tooled green leather and above a frieze applied with trophy and foliate-cast mounts between false and four true frieze drawers, two of which are swing-out wedge-shape drawers and one fitted with pen trays and inkwells. All raised on a turned column and three match-strike reeded downswept legs terminating in brass caps and castors. -- One drawer with a trade label for 'J. McLane & Son', a label the firm used between circa 1799 and circa 1805 (Beard & Gilbert, 1986). A similar table by the firm survives at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire. One of two pieces of furniture at Saltram (the other a games table NT 871334) by this maker.
Provenance
Appears in a painting of the Library at Saltram by Nicholas Condy, circa 1825 and thence by descent to Edmund Robert Parker (1877 - 1951), 4th Earl of Morley and accepted in part payment of death duties by HM Treasury from his Executors and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.
Marks and inscriptions
Inside drawer: Manufactured and Sold by / J. McLANE & SON, / Pancrass Street, Tottenham Court- / Road, and 58 / Upper Mary-le-bone-street, / Portland Place'
Makers and roles
John McLean & Son, cabinetmaker
References
Gilbert (1996): Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700 - 1840 (1996), p. 312, Figure 589 Beard and Gilbert, 1986: Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert (ed), Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, pp. 567 - 568