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The following three items of French furniture (lots 34-36) were possibly acquired by George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford and 1st Duke of Sutherland (1785-1833), who was British Ambassador to Paris from 1790 to 1792. The Duke, who lived at Stafford House in London and Dunrobin Castle in the Scottish Highlands, was a keen collector of pictures and furniture and his years in Paris just after the Revolution must have enabled him to purchase many treasures.

A LOUIS XV GILTWOOD CONSOLE

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XV GILTWOOD CONSOLE
MID-18TH CENTURY
The later serpentine shaped moulded giallo marble top above a pierced waived frieze carved with rockwork and foliage, on scrolling legs joined by a pierced rockwork and foliate cartouche, regilt, loss to one leg
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 53½ in. (135 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.)

Provenance

Clare, Duchess of Sutherland (d. 1998).

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