A fine mahogany sideboard table, in the manner of Thomas Hope, circa 1810, supported by four lion monopodia with an elaborate brass gallery 145 x 183 x 65cm Provenance: Balls Park, Hertfordshire, With Jas. A. Lewis & Son, London, March 1955, John Sheffield, Laverstoke House, Hampshire, and thence by descent to the current owner Litrature: M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1820, page 143, fig. 163 Macquoid & Edwards, Dictionary of English Furniture, 1927, vol III, page 133, fig 24 Condition report: Some scratches to top, wear to polised finish to right side of freize and to right base, loss of some moulding and veneer to right base, some dry cracking to both bases, some other wear mainly at edges commensurate with age and use