A PAIR OF POLYCHROME-DECORATED SATINWOOD, MAHOGANY AND SYCAMORE DEMI-LUNE PIER TABLES

LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF POLYCHROME-DECORATED SATINWOOD, MAHOGANY AND SYCAMORE DEMI-LUNE PIER TABLES
Late 19th Early 20th Century
Each banded overall in tulipwood, with projecting top inlaid to the rear edge with a husk-wreathed medallion depicting on one table Venus and Cupid, and on the other Leda and the Swan within a rectangular tablet set within a demi-lune, the main field with laurel-encircled medallions suspended between ribbon-tied floral garlands, the outer edge with continuous arched pattern with ribbon-tied wheat stems, above a plain frieze centred by a projecting tablet with inset oval panel depicting a centaur, on reeded baluster tapering legs and toupie feet, the feet tipped
37 in. (94 cm.) high; 62 in. (157.5 cm.) wide; 25½ in. (65 cm.) deep (2)

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The decoration of the tops relates closely to that found on furniture made by the firm of Wright and Mansfield. The taste for such 'Sheraton' or 'Adams' [sic] furniture developed in the 1860s and 1870s, particularly after the acquisition by the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria & Albert Museum) of a cabinet exhibited by Wright & Mansfield in the Paris exhibition of 1867. In particular, the handling of the floral swags and figure painting on the Victoria & Albert Museum cabinet relate to that on the present example (C. Wainwright, 'The Dark Ages of art revived', Connoisseur, June 1978, pp. 95-105).

A related pair of pier tables was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 4 July 1997, lot 115 (£41,100) and a table with an almost identical decorative configuration of its top is illustrated in P. Macquoid, The Age of Satinwood, London, 1908, figs. 212 & 213.