Side table

John Yenn · 1780-04-18T00:00:00Z

A drawing related to the decoration of this, and two similar, tables has been attributed to John Yenn, a pupil and draftsman of the architect Sir William Chambers (1723–1796), who may have been responsible for their design. The Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne on the Isle of Naxos, after a composition by the Italian painter Guido Reni (1575–1642), is depicted on the table's top. The monogram G IV R, for George IV Rex incised on the back, shows this to be one of the few pieces of furniture in the collection with an English royal provenance.