Pair Regency period Sofa Tables, circa 1820

A rare Pair of Regency period Rosewood end support Sofa tables, each with wonderful figured veneers, gilded ormolu beaded mouldings, star back plate handles to the two Mahogany lined drawers and dummy drawers to the reverse. Raised on splay supports and the original brass castors.
In the manner of; John McLean
John McLean (born 1770; died 1825) was an English furniture and cabinet maker and designer. He is mentioned in Thomas Sheraton’s 1803 ‘Cabinet Dictionary’ and worked extensively for the 5th Earl of Jersey at Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, and his London mansion in Berkeley Square. Examples of his furniture can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor and the Library at Saltram House, Devon.
Literature: See Frances Collard ‘Regency Furniture’, Woodbridge, 1985, p.145, for a very similar example.