Lot 53
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE

THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO J. G. CRACE

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE
The design attributed to J. G. Crace
The circular moulded top banded with interlocking floral designs between rosettes, on a burr-walnut ground with central lobed conforming panel centred by a rosette, on a central fluted shaft studded with verde marble brambles between paterae and surrounded by four fluted columns with lobed bases, on a shaped plinth with outscrolled leaf-wrapped feet and brass castors, the top repositioned, the underside with paper label inscribed with 'Gordon' and with chalk inscription 'Stratidee Northfield Broken'
29¼ in. (74 cm.) high; 47¼ in. (120 cm.) diam.
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Patterns for inlaid table-tops on related frames with reeded and fluted pillars featured in the Shoreditch manufacturers C. & R. Light's Designs and Catalogue of Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture, 1877 (E. T. Joy, The Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 503). A related frame appears on a library-table at Knightshayes Court, Devon, which may have been amongst the furniture introduced by John Diblee Crace (d. 1919) around 1880 (M. Aldrich, The Craces: Royal Decorators, Brighton, 1990, p. 119). A related design for a table-top was illustrated in the Craces' The Workshop, vol II, 1871.

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