BY JENSEN GILDERS, MODERN, IN THE MANNER OF FRANCIS BRODIE

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A PAIR OF GILTWOOD EAGLE CONSOLE TABLES
BY JENSEN GILDERS, MODERN, IN THE MANNER OF FRANCIS BRODIE
Each rectangular brêche violette marble top above a Vitruvian scroll frieze supported by a displayed eagle on a rock-work base, the moulded pedestal base with foliate carving
Each 33 ¾ in. (81.5 cm.) high; 32 in. (81 cm.) wide; 15 ¼ in. (39.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Supplied by Jensen Gilders, April 2010.

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Lot Essay

This pair of 'Jupiter' eagle console tables, appropriate for a 'Roman' banqueting hall, recalls the myth Ovid's Metamorphoses of the shepherd Ganymede who was borne aloft by an eagle to serve as Jupiter's attendant at the banquet of the Gods. The pattern may have been invented by Lord Burlington's protégé, the artist architect William Kent (d. 1748), who provided Roman eagles in his illustrations for Alexander Pope's 1725 translation of Homer's Odyssey.

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