A large Regency period mahogany side-table/serving table in the manner of George Smith

The break-fronted top with three oak lined drawers decorated with fine beading. The scrolled console legs with acanthus leaves and paw feet.

Fabulous quality Cuban mahogany throughout, in original country house condition with excellent patina and colour. 

Circa 1820

Smith, George

London; designer, cabinet maker and upholder (c.1786–1828)

Smith is described on the title page of his ambitious and influential pattern book A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808, as an ‘upholder extraordinary to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales’. The 158 aquatint engravings bear dates from 1804 to 1807 and are important as being the first collection of designs for ordinary furniture in a fully developed Regency style. Advertisements for the book in the Liverpool Chronicle, 20 February 1805 and 25 November 1807 disclose that it was issued in three parts over three years, each priced £1 11s 6d plain or £2 12s 6d ‘elegantly coloured’. Smith contributed designs for furniture to Ackermann’s periodical Repository of Arts in January and March 1809 and his A Collection of Ornamental Designs after the Antique appeared in 1812.

Smith traded as an ‘upholsterer and cabinet maker’ at 69 Dean Street, Soho (1795–97); as ‘upholder etc’ at 15 Princes Street, Cavendish Square (1806–11); and at 28 Marylebone, Piccadilly (1826).