Y A REGENCY 'AMBOYNA' SOFA TABLECIRCA 1815The timber probably amboyna or Havannah wood with rosewood crossbanding, the two frieze drawers opposing false drawer fronts71cm high, 140cm wide, 69cm deepProvenance: Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House, 1 November 2011, Lot 85 (4,750)Literature: Joy Billington, Forbes: The London Collection, The Illustrated London News, Spring 1991, Vol 279, No 7099, pp 38-39See Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, p153 for a workbox of specimen woods made by Gillows, Lancaster in 1808. The timber of this table could be Amboyna or possibly Havannah wood which 'resembles fustic.., amon West Indian dyewoodmonly imported into Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries'