A GEORGE II MAHOGANY AND BRASS MARQUETRY TRIPOD TABLE, ATTRIBUTED TO FREDERICK HINTZ, CIRCA 1740

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY AND BRASS MARQUETRY TRIPOD TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO FREDERICK HINTZ, CIRCA 1740 Inlaid in brass with scallop shells and stylized bud decoration 68cm high, 56cm diameter Bruce W. Goodman, Joint Managing Director of Marks and Spencer PLC, 1967-1971 See Christopher Gilbert & Tessa Murdoch, John Channon and brass-inlaid furniture 1730-1760, Yale, p.118, pl. 153 and pl. 154 for tables of related form and inlay to the present table. Formerly thought to have been supper tables, the size of the dished recesses suggest they were more likely to have been made for tea plates or cups and saucers. At the time of the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, John Channon and brass-inlaid furniture, 1730-1760 (1993), only thirty-four had come to light. The present brass inlaid mahogany tripod tea table is attributed to the German cabinet maker Frederick Hintz (d. 1772) who worked at the sign of 'The Porcupine' in Newport Street, Leicester Fields, London. The table is one of a distinct group of similarly shaped and inlaid tables of high quality, which have between 8 and 12 'lobes' and which are particularly associated with a community of émigré craftsmen resident in London. Hintz was born in 1711 in Settin, a town in former East Germany. By 1737 he was living in London and as a member of the Moravian Church, a protestant religious movement that grew in Germany and England during the mid 18th century comprising communities of craftsmen, he worked under the auspices of the church. Hintz was recorded in a 1738 advertisement discovered by the furniture historian, R.W. Symonds, a maker of 'Desks and Book-Cases of mahogany, Tea-Tables, Tea-Chests, and Tea-Boards etc. all curiously made and inlaid with fine figures of brass...'. At the same time other German cabinet makers working in London included Abraham Roentgen, with whom Hintz appears to have had a close professional relationship (they travelled to Germany together in June 1738, Hintz returning by 1748). Tables that can be attributed to Hintz are in the Victoria & Albert Museum, acquisition no. W.3-1965, and another formerly in the collection of the Duchess of Roxburghe, illustrated in Ralph Edwards, Dictionary of English Furniture, vol. III, p. 207, fig.15.' Condition Report Disclaimer

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