A George II mahogany chamber table

A George II mahogany chamber table, circa 1740, the rectangular dish top above two frieze drawers at each end, a false frieze drawer and an opposing false drawer, on cabriole legs and pad feet, 71cm high, 77.5cm wide, 49cm deep
For a virtually identical example, see Christie's English Furniture, 15th April 1999, Lot 159 (£16,100)
The current table relates in all its features including the lappet carved legs and being finished on all sides, to several small mahogany chamber tables supplied to Sir Robert Walpole (d.1745) at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, circa 1725. This type of table are what Thomas Chippendale would have later referred to as a 'Chamber table', being used as a dressing table in a bedchamber. See A. Moore (ed.) Houghton Hall, The Prime Minister, The Empress and the Heritage, London, 1996, pp.90 and 92, no.8.