PROPERTY OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITION FUND (LOTS 1-6)

A GEORGE I GILT-GESSO SIDE TABLE

CIRCA 1720

Details

A GEORGE I GILT-GESSO SIDE TABLE
CIRCA 1720
The rectangular top with foliate relief and egg-and-dart edge, above a frieze and legs decorated with a trellis pattern on three sides, centered by a shell, with scroll bracket supports
29 in. (74 cm.) high, 24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) wide, 19¼ in. (49 cm.) deep

Provenance

Mrs. D. Hart and Boleyn Investments Ltd., removed from Villa Millbrook, St. Lawrence, Jersey; Christie's, London, 30 October 1969, lot 97 (£840 to Jeremy).
with Jeremy Ltd., London, circa 1969.

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Lot Essay

The table once belonged to Dorothy Hart, the widow of financier Geoffrey Hart, whose collection at Villa Millbrook was assembled under the advise of R. W. Symonds and profiled in a two-part article by C. Musgrave,'At the Villa Millbrook', The Connoisseur, June and July 1965.

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