20TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM KENT

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A PAIR OF GILTWOOD PIER TABLES
20TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM KENT
Each with a brêche-violet veneered marble top, above a plain frieze with acanthus-leaf and flower-head and ribbon moulding, on a later plinth base, on scaly and foliate volutes with scrolls and trailing festoons, later gilded
32¼ in. (82 cm.) high; 60 in. (153 cm.) wide; 28 in. (71 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

The Late Leonard Huskinson, Langar Hall, Nottinghamshire, sold Marilyn Swain Auctions, Grantham, Lincolnshire, 3 March 1993.

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Lot Essay

The marble-topped sideboard-tables, with truss-scrolled pilasters, are designed in the George II 'Roman' fashion associated with Inigo Jones (d. 1652) and promoted in particular by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and his protégé the Rome-trained artist/architect William Kent (d. 1748) (see Isaac Ware, Designs of Inigo Jones and others, 1731). Such paired and acanthus-festooned pilasters feature on tables that are thought to have been designed for Sir Robert Walpole (d. 1745) under Kent's direction (P. Thornton,'Soane's Kent Tables', Apollo, 1993, pp. 56-65).

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