A GEORGE II MAHOGANY 'CHAMBER' TABLEPOSSIBLY IRISH, CIRCA 1760The dished top with re-entrant corners, a candle slide beneath each side edge, the frieze and top finished on all sides75cm deep, 76cm wide, 45.5cm deepThis table closely relates to several small mahogany chamber tables with moulded tops and re-entrant corners, supplied to Sir Robert Walpole (d.1745) at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, circa 1725. They were probably used as dressing tables in the bedchambers on both the ground and second floors. They seem to correspond in number to the dressing tables listed in 1792, and are what Thomas Chippendale would later describe as a 'Chamber table'. One of the Houghton tables is illustrated in situ, in the Hunting Hall at Houghton in A, Moore (ed.) Houghton Hall, The Prime Minister, The Empress and the Heritage, London, 1996, pp. 90 and 92, no. 8. A very similar table was sold, Christie's London. 15th April 1999, Lot 159 (16,100).