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Lot Essay
The sideboard table has voluted and acanthus-wrapped trusses in the George II Roman fashion after the manner of Inigo Jones (d. 1635), such as features on a 'slab table' pattern in William Jones' The Gentleman's or Builder's Companion, 1739, pl. 29; while its deity-masked cartouche tied to a ribbon-fretted frieze, relates to a sideboard table pattern invented for Houghton, Norfolk by the architect William Kent (d. 1748) and published in John Vardy's, Some Designs of Mr Inigo Jones and Mr William Kent, 1744.
Chair legs displaying related bacchic foliage-bearing lion-masks were introduced on a suite of seat furniture provided in the mid-18th Century for Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire and illustrated, together with the Jones and Vardy designs, in Francis Lenygon's Furniture in England from l660-l760, London, l9l4, figs. l77, l75 and l44.
Chair legs displaying related bacchic foliage-bearing lion-masks were introduced on a suite of seat furniture provided in the mid-18th Century for Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire and illustrated, together with the Jones and Vardy designs, in Francis Lenygon's Furniture in England from l660-l760, London, l9l4, figs. l77, l75 and l44.