MID-18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE II GILT-GESSO AND GILTWOOD EAGLE CONSOLE TABLE
MID-18TH CENTURY
The rounded rectangular top with re-entrant corners, decorated with shells, strapwork and foliage on a pounced ground, above a Vitruvian- scroll frieze, above an eagle with outspread wings, on a later rectangular plinth with foliate-carved edge, with sides supports of scrolling foliage with satyr's legs with cloven hooves on later rectangular plinths with foliate-carved edge, the lower part of the side brackets replaced, the top probably original to the table, regilt and restorations to gesso
32½ in. (82.5 cm.) high; 44 in. (111.5 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (59.5 cm.) deep.

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Lot Essay

This form of table, featuring Jupiter's eagle flanked by bacchic satyr feet in the George II 'Roman' fashion promoted by the artist/architect William Kent (d. 1748), appears on a sideboard-table at St. Giles's House, Dorset (R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p. 586, fig. 33).

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