LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PREVIOUSLY A STAND

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD LOW TABLE
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PREVIOUSLY A STAND
The later glazed rectangular top inset with an etching of Hercules, Athene and Aphrodite within a later border, on a pale-blue ground, above a stiff-leaf and Greek-key frieze, on square tapering stop-fluted legs headed by patera with chandelles, on foliate-clasp feet, inscribed in blue chalk '6606 97' and with remains of printed paper label 'EM...rue de la Terrasse...' inscribed in pencil '97', re-gilt
19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high; 24¾ in. (63 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The print of 'Hercules between Virtue and Vice' derives from a painting commissioned from Paola de Matteis in 1712 by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury and sold by the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, Christie's London, 27 June 1980, lot 149. The Earl was the author of A Notion of the Historical Draught of Hercules, 1713, and his painting was intended to awaken British taste for Italian art. It was engraved in 1713 by Simon Gribelin and served as the frontispiece to Shaftesbury's The Judgement of Hercules in Charackteristics, 1737, vol. III, p. 347.

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