Lot 83
83
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SILVER-TABLE, the serpentine rectangular top with pierced fretwork gallery inlaid on the top edge with geometric banding, with gadrooned frieze and on square tapering legs joined by a waved channelled rounded rectangular X-shaped stretcher centred by a gadrooned urn, on block feet, approximatley 18in. of gallery replaced

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SILVER-TABLE, the serpentine rectangular top with pierced fretwork gallery inlaid on the top edge with geometric banding, with gadrooned frieze and on square tapering legs joined by a waved channelled rounded rectangular X-shaped stretcher centred by a gadrooned urn, on block feet, approximatley 18in. of gallery replaced
34½in. (88cm.) wide; 31¼in. (79.5cm.) high; 24in. (61cn.) deep

Lot Essay

Its serpentined form with scalloped tray-top and fretted railing, canted 'herm'-pilaster supports, and vase-capped arched stretchers, all feature in Thomas Chippendale's 'China Table' patterns, published in his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, pl. XXXIV

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