US$95,521.50 A very fine George III period Cuban mahogany four pillar dining table with demilune ends with ebony line inlay, on high swept reeded supports. Wonderful colour and proportions. Provenance: by repute purchased in 1802 by Captain John Worth (d. 1835) from Oakley Park, Suffolk. Thence by descent to his son-in-law Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker. Thence by descent until sold by Sotheby's Cape Town, 14 April 1986, lot 170. Purchased by the current owner from Sotheby's London Friday 15 September 2000, lot 57. Captain John Worth lived at Oakley, Suffolk, England. He gained the rank of Captain in the service of the Royal Navy. Mary Catherine Sinclair Worth (d. 1889) was the daughter of Captain John Worth and Catherine Sinclair. She married Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake-Walker (1802-1876) who was created 1st Baronet Wake Walker of Oakley House in 1856. Oakley Park, as a house, is old Hoxne Hall of the Maynards rebuilt and renamed. In 1654 Robert, brother of Sir Humphrey Style built the Hall. Some time after that the manor of Hoxne is described as "the inheritance of Thomas Maynard" who was the grandson of the second Lord Maynard of Easton Lodge. Thomas Maynard was described as having been "seated at Hoxne Hall which he rebuilt in an elegant manner" by Morant in his History of Essex (Country Life, , January 4 1908, p.22). After Thomas Maynard's death in 1742, Hoxne fell into the general Maynard estates in the time of Charles, sixth Baron and first Viscount Maynard. Charles left Hoxne to Thomas Hesilrige. In 1817 Hoxne reverted to the Viscount of that day, Thomas' nephew, who in 1810 had married a niece of Matthias Kerrison of Bungay. Their son, Edward Kerrison (b.1774) inherited the estate. Edward joined the army in 1796 and obtained captaincy of the 7th...