A REGENCY BRONZE-MOUNTED FIDDLEBACK-MAHOGANY AND MAHOGANY PEDESTAL SIDEBOARD

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A REGENCY BRONZE-MOUNTED FIDDLEBACK-MAHOGANY AND MAHOGANY PEDESTAL SIDEBOARD
The rectangular top with rounded rectangular gallery to the reverse, above a plain frieze centred by a tablet with a basket of fruit issuing foliage scrolls, and enclosing two mahogany-lined drawers, flanked on each side by a flat-topped rectangular domed pedestal, each with a door with a central laurel-wreath mount below a pair of lions drinking from a fountain, the base of the door with scrolling foliage and a pair of lion paws, the right-hand door enclosing a shelf and a cellaret drawer, the left-hand door enclosing a shelf, on a concave-fronted plinth base, restorations, previously with a further drawer to the right-hand cupboard
43¾ in. (111 cm.) high; 97 in. (246.5 cm.) wide; 28¾ in. (73 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The plinth-supported Grecian sideboard-table, embellished with a bronze bas-relief of a fruit-basket, is supported by 'Egyptian' pedestals on bacchic lion-paws, and is embellished with laurel-wreaths. The friezes on the pedestals depict bacchic-lions drinking from fountains taken from Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1807, pl. XIV, fig. 3.

A pair of closely related sideboards from Creedy Park, Crediton, Devon, was sold anonymously, Phillips London, 23 November 1993, lot 166.

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