Lot 139
139
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A BROWN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE TABLE of George II style with associated rectangular verde antico marble top above a greek-key pattern frieze supported by a splayed eagle resting on interwoven oak branches and flanked by acorn-enriched scroll volutes to the sides, upon a flowerhead and rockwork base and moulded rectangular plinth

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A BROWN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE TABLE of George II style with associated rectangular verde antico marble top above a greek-key pattern frieze supported by a splayed eagle resting on interwoven oak branches and flanked by acorn-enriched scroll volutes to the sides, upon a flowerhead and rockwork base and moulded rectangular plinth
44¼in. (112.5cm.) wide; 35¾in. (91cm.) high; 18¾in. (47.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

While the eagle and naturalistically entwined oak trees relate to the carver Thomas Johnson's 'Pier table' patterns illustrated in his Collection of Designs, 1758, pl. 18 and 19, the Grecian ribbon-fret frieze is in the Palladian style of the 1730s.

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