A GEORGE III GILTWOOD SIDE-TABLE WITH MICROMOSAIC TOP
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD SIDE-TABLE WITH MICROMOSAIC TOP
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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD SIDE-TABLE WITH MICROMOSAIC TOP

THE BASE CIRCA 1770-80, THE 'ROMAN' TOP POSSIBLY FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD SIDE-TABLE WITH MICROMOSAIC TOP
THE BASE CIRCA 1770-80, THE 'ROMAN' TOP POSSIBLY FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top of chevron pattern and Greek key within an alabaster border, above a carved frieze with egg-and-dart moulded border above swagged husks and circular foliate paterae, mounted with foliate scroll-work below, the square tapering fluted legs with leaf-carved capitals on fluted bun feet, reduced in depth to accommodate associated top, possibly in the 18th century, with consequential repairs to the decoration, the hanging carving associated, with indistinct chalk inscription to the underside of the top
35 ½ in. (90 cm.) high; 61 ½ in. (156 cm.) wide; 30 ¼ in. (76.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
P. C. Wilson Esq.
Acquired from Asprey & Co., London.
Literature
R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet Makers, 1946, p.105.
M. Jourdain and F. Rose, English Furniture: The Georgian Period, 1953, p.93, plate 63.

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Lot Essay

The giltwood side-table follows designs for side and serving-tables with square tapering fluted legs by the fashionable London architect Robert Adam (d.1792), published in his Works in Architecture (1778), principally plate XXV, a pier table with similar leaf-carved capitals, and also plates VIII, XX, XXI. It relates closely to a side table after a design by Adam dated 1765, supplied to Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet (d. 1781), at 19 Arlington Street, London, and which is described by the furniture historians Ralph Edwards and Margaret Jourdain as ‘probably’ by Samuel Norman (now in the Huntington Museum, Pasadena) (R. Edwards, M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers circa 1700-1800, London, 1955, p. 165, fig. 85). Norman’s 'considerable skill as a craftsman’ attracted the attention of Adam who undoubtedly introduced him to Dundas because from 1763-66 Norman was working at Moor Park, Hertfordshire, Aske Hall, North Yorkshire, and also at Arlington Street (S. Norman, 'A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Craftsman’, The Burlington Magazine, vol. III, no. 797, 1969, p. 504). Another pair of giltwood side tables with similarly carved supports, designed by Adam in 1765 was supplied for the Dining Room, Syon House, Middlesex, seat of the Dukes of Northumberland, (E. Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam, New Haven and London, 2001, p. 70, fig. 104). There is however no record of Norman working for the Northumberland family, and the side tables at Syon are possibly by William France (d. 1773); France and his partner, John Bradburn (d. 1781), also worked for Dundas, notably supplying the ram’s head suite dated 1764 for Moor Park, which is now at Kenwood House, London.

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