Fine Late 18th Century Marquetry Dressing Table

Fine late 18th Century (c.1790) English antique marquetry dressing table in satinwood and partridge wood. The table is raised on cabriole legs that are inlaid with scrolls and hare-bells. The shaped serpentine frieze has dummy drawers and slides to the front and sides which are inlaid with floral marquetry and cock-beaded in partridge wood. The top also with marquetry inlay is triple banded in kingwood, rosewood and satinwood and lifts to reveal an interior of covered compartments and folding mirror. Provenance:- Formerly the property of The Honorable Elizabeth Frances Mills (nee Barrington) (1811-1886), Second wife of Thomas Mills; daughter of 5th Viscount Barrington