A REGENCY ROSEWOOD, SIMULATED-BAMBOO, RED AND GILT-JAPANNED AND PARCEL- GILT CENTRE TABLE

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD, SIMULATED-BAMBOO, RED AND GILT-JAPANNED AND PARCEL- GILT CENTRE TABLE
The octagonal crossbanded top above a plain frieze with simulated bamboo border, on four bamboo supports, on a canted square base and downswept pagoda roof with conforming bamboo border, on scrolled foliage downswept feet with winged dragon spandrels, the later feet terminating in a bearded mask, the bamboo moulding on the frieze of the top in stained beech rather than rosewood and therefore either replaced or later, in which case the top is possibly associated
29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) high; 51½ in. (131 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

The table's bamboo and red-japanned frame embellished with golden dragon-scales, is of rectangular cut-cornered form corresponding to that of stands designed in the Oriental manner for the parade corridor of the Prince Regent's Marine Pavilion, Brighton and illustrated in J. Nash, Views of the Royal Pavilion Brighton, London, 1984, figs. 170 and 171). A pair of related two-tier stands with pagoda-swept rooves was acquired for this corridor in 1967 (D. Rogers, 'Recreation of Brighton's Royal Pavilion', The Connoisseur, August 1968, p. 217, fig. 2).

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