SOLD FOR $9,600
Neoclassical Ebony Inlaid Oak Drum Table, English, circa 1820, after designs by Thomas Hope. Thomas Hope, author and virtuoso, employed his considerable fortune designing the furniture and decoration for his London House on Cavendish Square. He published his designs in 1807 (“Household Furniture and Decoration”) and demonstrated a scholarly gift for adapting “antique” elements, Greek and Egyptian to furniture. This remarkable drum table is based on a model owned by Thomas Hope (Plate XXXIX). The bold and decorative ebony details compliment the flat geometric shapes. The tooled leather circular top above a frieze of drawers raised on a concave tripod base ending in carved and ebonized winged paw feet. Hope is credited for having “headed the classic movement” at the beginning of the 19th century.
Height 29 ½ in. Diameter 48 in.

Provenance: From a Bunny Williams Designed Nantucket Estate
Florian Papp, New York, New York