A ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY URN-STAND

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A ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY URN-STAND
Inlaid overall with boxwood and ebonised lines, and crossbanded in tulipwood, the galleried oval top centred by a fan medallion, above a panelled frieze decorated with laurel-draped medallions, on square tapering legs headed by simulated-fluted panels, and inlaid with bell-husks, joined by an X-shaped platform stretcher centred by a medallion, on spade feet, with red paper label to the underside inscribed in ink 'F90' and a further similar paper label printed 'F90'
13 in. (33 cm.) wide; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) high; 11 in. (28 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The table's frieze of inlaid flutes and medallion-centred tablets festooned with husks, in the French manner, corresponds to that of card-tables supplied in the mid-1760s both to Hugh Smithson, 1st Duke of Northumberland (d.1786), as well as to Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Lord Scarsdale at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire and attributed to Messrs. William and John Linnell of Berkeley Square (H. Hayward & P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London, 1980, vol. II, figs. 279 and 282).

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