A GEORGE III HAREWOOD AND MARQUETRY SIDE TABLE

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A GEORGE III HAREWOOD AND MARQUETRY SIDE TABLE
Cross-banded overall in tulipwood, the later semi-elliptical white and purple marble top above a frieze inlaid with an urn draped with laurel swag and acanthus scrolls, the sides with husk-draped ribbon-tied paterae, on square tapering legs headed by urns and inlaid with husks, adapted, repairs the tops of two front legs
49¾in. (126cm.) wide; 32¾in. (83.5cm.) high; 24¼in. (64.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Designed in the George III antique style popularised by R. and J. Adam, Works in Architecture, 1774, the table's husk-festooned frieze is embellished with an arabesque sacred-urn and sunflower-paterae derived from Robert Wood's engravings of Apollo's Temple in Ruins of Palmyra, 1753. The ornament relates to that of a pier-table illustrated F.L. Hinckley, Hepplewhite Sheraton and Regency Furniture, New York, 1987, p. 173.

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