A DUTCH EBONISED, MARQUETRY AND BONE INLAID CENTRE TABLEFIRST HALF 19TH CENTURYThe rectangular top inlaid with birds among floral cartouches and conforming spandrels and decorations to the borders above a blind frieze drawer, the square tapering legs similarly inlaid and headed by gilt foliate collars and joined by a waved platform stretcher75.5cm high, 128cm wide, 74cm deepProvenance: Probably the Messel family collection at NymansIn the Drawing Room at Holmstead Manor and thence by descent to Oliver MesselPurchased from Oliver Messel by Frederick and Phyllis Watkins for Flaxley Abbey A related example can be found in the Duke Buccleuch's collection at Boughton see O, Brackett, 'An Encyclopaedia of English Furniture',1927, pp. 95.