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Attributed to Henry Hill of Marlborough (d. 1778) English, circa 1770's The rectangular moulded twin-flap top veneered in a lozenge pattern above a single frieze drawer with gilt-brass handles; on square tapering legs with finely cast brass castors. The table fully veneered in Sabicu (?) with boxwood edging.
Henry Hill, cabinet-maker, coach-maker, auctioneer, estate agent and representative of the Sun Insurance Company, active in Marlborough from about 1740 until his death in 1778, when the business was taken over by his assistant Samuel Hilliker." Most of Hill's clients, so far discovered, were landed Wiltshire families, and the patronage of some of these can be linked to surviving furniture.
A table of virtually identical form made for Burderop Park, exhibits the same large scale lozenge parquetry. This seems to have been a speciality of Hill's, with or
without the addition of marquetry.
Annotated from 'Catalogue of Commodes: Lady Lever Art Gallery by Lucy Wood.
https://archive.org/details/catalogueofcommo0000lady/page/66/mode/2up
