THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, MURSHIDABAD

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A MATCHED PAIR OF ANGLO-INDIAN IVORY SMALL SIDE TABLES
Third quarter 18th Century, Murshidabad
Each with a later semi-elliptical mirror plate top above a frieze carved with foliage, on cabriole legs headed by foliage-carved ears and with trailing foliage reaching to paw feet, both adapted from larger tables, restorations and replacements
One table 27½ in. (70 cm.) high; 26¼ in. (66.5 cm.) wide; 11¾ in. (30 cm.) deep
The other 27 in. (68.5 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 13½ in. (34 cm.) deep (2)

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Lot Essay

These tables correspond to an oval table with gold-enriched foliage acquired from the Crewe collection by Sir John Soane (d. 1837). Furniture of the same pattern was presented in the 1780s to Warren Hastings, India's Governor-General, by Mani Begum (see A. Jaffer Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 2001, no 80).

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