OF GEORGE II STYLE, LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
Of George II style, late 19th early 20th Century
The later rectangular pink-veined marble top above an egg-and-dart moulding and pounced frieze, on rockwork and foliate-carved cabriole legs headed by winged cherub masks supporting swagged garlands issuing from a central shell, inscribed in chalk to the reverse 'IB14 400 731' (?)
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 52 in. (132 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

With its fruit-and-flower festooned Venus-shell and serpentined truss legs, the table relates to patterns for 'Marble Tables' or 'Pier-Tables' in the Roman manner of William Kent such as those featured in William Jones's The Gentleman or Builder's Companion, London, 1739, pl. 31; and to tables supplied in 1745 to Temple Newsam, Leeds (F. Lenygon, Furniture in England, London, 1914, fig. 211). An early Georgian table with related Cupid-headed legs was advertised by Litchfields in The Connoisseur, July 1916.

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