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REGENCY PERIOD ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE (ROYAL)

Posted by Windsor House Antique

13 May, 2020

REGENCY PERIOD ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE (ROYAL)

US$44,086.90

ROYAL. A Regency period rosewood and brass inlaid sofa table,the rectangular moulded edge hinged top with D-shaped leaves above a pair of frieze drawers with carved rosewood pulls, flanked by gadrooned scroll inlaid tablets, and with a similar opposing arrangement with faux drawer fronts, on reeded and acanthus carved dual end supports with down-swept reeded and acanthus scroll decorated legs with lion's paw caps and castors, branded to the underside of one drawer 'CLAREMONT' and another partial Claremont stamp.
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c. 1810
Presumably commissioned by either H.R.H Princess Charlotte (d.1817) or her husband H.R.H Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg (d.1865) later King of the Belgians for Claremont, Surrey:
At Claremont during the occupancy of King Louis-Phillipe (d.1850) and Queen Marie-Amélie of France (d.1866):
Purchased by H.R.H Queen Victoria with the Claremont Estate for her son H.R.H Leopold, Duke of Albany (D.1865) by descent to his wife
H.R.H Helen, Duchess of Albany (d.1922) sold by the Public Trustee to:
Sir William Corry, Bart. (d.1926) and sold by order of his executors, Puttick and Simpson's sale of The Contents of the Mansion Claremont, 25-28th October, 1926, lot 380, A late Georgian rosewood Centre Table with carved ornament and brass inlay with two drawers on end standards, 70inches wide.
Private collection, Albany, London.

The first house on the Claremont estate was that built by the architect Sir John Vanbrugh for his own use. In 1714 he sold the house to the whig politician Thomas Pelham-Holles, Earl of Clare, later the Duke of Newcastle, who added two wings and a tower to the house and re-named it 'Clare-mount' later abbreviated to 'Claremont'. After his death the house was sold to Lord Clive of India who demolished the house and commissioned Henry Holland to build the present palladian mansion although Clive actually died a year before the house was finished in 1774. Claremont was purchased by the nation in 1816 as a wedding present for George IV's daughter Princess Charlotte and her husband Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. Princess Charlotte died the following year and Prince Leopold remained at the house until he became King of the Belgians in 1831. During these years Queen Victoria was a frequent visitor to Claremont to see her favourite uncle and the house was lent to her after Leopold's departure to Belgium. The house was sometimes known as Claremont Palace as a result of it's royal connections. Victoria then lent the house to the exiled King of France, Louis-Phillipe and his wife Marie Amélie. After their death's, Queen Victoria purchased Claremont for her son Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (d.1884) and his wife Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (d.1922). Their son Charles, who became the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, was a German citizen who had served as a General in World War I and was therefore not allowed to inherit. Claremont was confiscated and sold by the Public Trustee to Sir William Corry, director of the Cunard Line.
The 1866 inventory mark taken following the death of Queen Marie-Amélie of France who had been occupying the house since 1848. Furnishings in a Grecian style were thought to have been supplied for Claremont in 1816 following Princess Charlotte's marriage, see M.Jourdain, Regency Furniture, 1795-1830, London rev.ed, 1965, p.41 and included an amboyna and brass inlaid sofa table with a pair of card tables en-suite, now in the Royal Collection (Buckingham Palace). The sofa table is illustrated in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London 1924-7, Vol.3, p.271., pl.20. Other furniture bearing the CLAREMONT stamp was sold at auction in 1981 following the death of H.R.H Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, daughter of the Duke and Duchesss of Albany and removed from Kensington Palace, see Christie's London, July 16, 1981. A folio stand from the collection re-appeared at auction in the collection of Mrs Marella Agnelli, sold Sotheby's New York, 23 October 2004, lot 106. Other Claremont pieces include a pair of Regency polescreens, sold Christie's London, 25 November 2004, lot 41, a George III linen press, sold Christie's London, 4 June 1998, lot 184 and a pair of bedside cupboards, sold Christie's London, 23 April 2009, lot 146.
Height29.00 inch(73.7 cm)
Width70.50 inch(179.1 cm)
Depth30.00 inch(76.2 cm)
Ref No. 927

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