Lot 268
268
A NORTH EUROPEAN CARVED OAK, BURR-WALNUT, ASH, EBONISED AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE
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A NORTH EUROPEAN CARVED OAK, BURR-WALNUT, ASH, EBONISED AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A NORTH EUROPEAN CARVED OAK, BURR-WALNUT, ASH, EBONISED AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
The circular top with a foliate cast edge around a circular panel centred by a star, above a moulded frieze with grotesque masks, above an eagle-carved tripod base with a leaf-wrapped central baluster support, on a stepped plinth with leaf-cast edge, on castors
31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 48 in. (122 cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

The centre table features a top parquetried with a Grecian-black rosette compartment framed by golden 'Apollo' sunbursts, while its tripod 'altar' pedestal is richly-carved in the Renaissance fashion with its vase baluster guarded by Jupiter's veil-draped eagles.
Such robust furniture executed for the mid-l9th Century great exhibitions was illustrated in the 1870s in G.W. Yapp's, 'Art Industry, Furniture, Upholstery and House Decoration'.

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