A PAIR OF BURR ELM, ORMOLU AND PATINATED CENTRE TABLES

OF EMPIRE STYLE, LATE 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF BURR ELM, ORMOLU AND PATINATED CENTRE TABLES
Of Empire style, late 20th Century
Each with inset circular grey veined white marble top on a support of addorsed weeping female figures, on a plinth base mounted with swagged bucrania
31¼ in. (78 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

This design of addorsed weeping women was originally used by Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780-1854) for a pair of candelabra delivered in 1811 to the future George IV for Carlton House. They were subsequently removed to Buckingham Palace in 1887 (see J. Harris et al, Buckingham Palace, London, 1986, p. 156.).

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