BY GEORGE SIMSON, CIRCA 1790

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A GEORGE III HAREWOOD AND MARQUETRY PEMBROKE TABLE
BY GEORGE SIMSON, CIRCA 1790
With a continuous band of berry strung laurel leaves surrounding a rosette, the drawer inlaid with crossed palmettes, the interior of drawer bearing the label George Simson/ Upholder... / No. 19/ South Side of St. Paul's Churchyard,/ London, and with remnants of the same label to underside of drawer, supported on tapered legs with scrolled acanthus pendant husks, also with with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
29 ¼ in. (74.3 cm.) high, 30 in. (76.2 cm.) deep, 40 in. (101.6 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 November 1991, lot 92.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Literature

C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Market London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 425, figs. 849-850.

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Lot Essay

George Simson (or Simpson as his name was also spelled) was recorded at 19 St. Paul's Churchyard in London from 1787 until 1840. He made furniture in the elegant neoclassical style of the 1780s and 1790s and subscribed to Thomas Sheraton's Drawing Book. Perhaps the most famous pieces associated with his workshop are the remarkable group of secretaire cabinets incorporating clocks and organs, made for Thomas Weeks's Museum of mechanical curiosities in the Haymarket.

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