The dished rectangular top finely decorated with a central armorial, the japanned ground enriched with gilt chinoiserie figures and foliate scrolls, raised on squared cabriole legs terminating in pointed pad feet. The armorial to the centre depicts a shield displaying devices associated with the King family, later Earls of Lovelace, impaled with allied arms bearing close affinity to the Lockwood crest, suggesting marital or dynastic union. This heraldic imagery reflects the descent of the table within the collection of Torridon House, in Ross-shire, Scotland, latterly the seat of the Lovelace family, where the entwined histories of King, Noel, and allied houses such as Lockwood were proudly commemorated.

This piece exhibits the sophisticated japanned furniture produced in London workshops of the early Georgian period and is comparable to the work of George Nix, cabinetmaker to the royal household, whose japanned tables frequently bore armorial decoration.

A similar table was sold at Christie's in June 2008 in their sale entitled, Simon Sainsbury The Creation of an English Arcadia.

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