Lot 31
31
Various Properties
AN OAK TABLE A GIBIER with moulded serpentine variegated red and black marble top, the panelled frieze carved with strapwork, acanthus scrolls and flowerheads, with waved apron carved on one side with the head of Bacchus flanked by rockwork scrolls, on the other side by a figure of Hercules, on cabriole legs headed by rockwork and carved with satyr-masks, rockwork and bellflowers, on acanthus-carved scrolled feet, repairs to feet, feet spliced, the marble repaired

Details
AN OAK TABLE A GIBIER with moulded serpentine variegated red and black marble top, the panelled frieze carved with strapwork, acanthus scrolls and flowerheads, with waved apron carved on one side with the head of Bacchus flanked by rockwork scrolls, on the other side by a figure of Hercules, on cabriole legs headed by rockwork and carved with satyr-masks, rockwork and bellflowers, on acanthus-carved scrolled feet, repairs to feet, feet spliced, the marble repaired
62½in. (159cm.) wide; 31in. (78.5cm.) high; 36in. (91.5cm.) deep
Provenance
Major-General Sir George Burns, K.C.V.O., C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., North Mymms Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Christie's house sale, September 22-24 1979, lot 211

Lot Essay

North Mymms Park was purchased in the early 1890s by Walter Hayes Burns, brother-in-law of J. Pierpont Morgan. Considerable internal modifications and enlargements were carried out by the fashionable London architect Sir Ernest George to accommodate the collection of works of art, furniture and pictures

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