A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE

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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS OF LANCASTER

The circular top with arabesque band along the border, above a shallow frieze with beaded edge and a hexagonal shaft with gadrooned bands on a concave-sided canted triangular base with gadrooned edge, on foliate scrolling paw feet and brass castors
48in. (122cm.) diam.; 28¾in. (73cm.) high

Provenance

Probably supplied to Morton John Davison, Esq. (1778-1841), for Beamish Park, Co. Durham
Thence by indirect descent with the house to Robert Duncombe Shafto, Esq., of Beamish Park and subsequently of Bavington Hall

Lot Essay

This drawing-room circular 'loo' table, inlaid in the French manner with a brass acanthus-scroll ribbon, is enriched with Grecian beads and reeds gadrooning its frame, octagonal pillar and altar-tripod plinth with bacchic lion-paws. This style of table was popularised by one illustrated in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, and an 1822 design for one of this pattern features in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books, no. 3146

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