OF GEORGE III STYLE, 19TH CENTURY, THE TOPS LATE 18TH CENTURY

The elliptic or demi-medallion tables, designed in the George III 'Roman' fashion of the 1770s, have their friezes bordered by an Etruscan pearl-string. They are wreathed by 'Apollo' sunflowered ribbon-guilloches in antique-stippled tablets, which frame a central tablet sunk with palm-wrapped and 'love' enflamed 'casollette' urn, whose Grecian ribbon-fretted handles are festooned with 'Apollo' laurels evoking lyric poetry. The columnar legs are headed by acanthus-flowered tablets and are designed in the Louis XVI fashion with 'altar' hollowed and pearl-wreathed capitals, reeds sunk in their fluted pillars, plinths enriched with Egyptian fluted tablets, and raised on herm-tapered 'stump' feet.

Related rectangular tops with green verde antico marble bordered by white marble appear on a pair of tables probably supplied to Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds (1751-1799) and sold from the 10th Duke of Leeds Will Trust, Christie's, London, 24 November 2005, lot, 119.