Peter J. Martin and Son Antiques

Description

A handsome, fine quality, and versatile mahogany table made in the Georgian manner, suitable for use as a writing, dressing, side, or hall table. The top has a gallery to the rear and sides and a reeded edge, above two drawers with flame mahogany and cock beaded fronts, fine hand cut dovetail joints to the mahogany linings, and Hobbs & Co. locks. The table is raised on elegant square tapering legs with original brass castors.

Bears label of the eminent maker ‘Maple & Co. London, Paris, Buenos Aires'.

About Maple & Co.

Maple & Co. were the pre-eminent furniture manufacturers and retailers of the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Their Tottenham Court Road premises in London was the largest furnishing store on the planet, manufacturing their own luxury furniture in a complex eventually so vast that by the 1880s it occupied an area where once stood 200 houses. They were timber importers, and exporters of furniture and fittings to all parts of the world.

Maples' market was the middle class and upwards. They furnished palaces all over the world, including Tsar Nicholas's Winter Palace, the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna, all the great hotels, and town and country homes. Prestigious British embassies were all furnished by Maples… even if it meant carrying the grand piano up the Khyber Pass on packhorses!