A VICTORIAN GRAINED AND COMPOSITION SIDE TABLE

IN THE ADAM STYLE

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A VICTORIAN GRAINED AND COMPOSITION SIDE TABLE
In the Adam style
The rectangular white marble top inlaid with bluejohn with a central fluted and geometrically-decorated oval, the central circle surrounded by four urns, the corners with rosettes, above a frieze decorated with an oval patera issuing twisted ears of wheat, flanked by music-trophy panels, the sides with musical trophies and anthemions, on square tapering panelled legs headed by oval paterae and decorated with hanging bell-husks, on block feet, inscribed in pencil 'No. 5719 Ellis', and in paint '29', originally green-painted
61in. (155cm.) wide; 36½in. (92.5cm.) high; 36½in. (93cm.) deep

Provenance

The Maitland Family at Loughton Hall, Essex then Harrington Hall, Lincolnshire.

Lot Essay

The statuary white marble top of this 'mosaic' sideboard-table is inlaid in Derbyshire bluejohn in Roman 'pavement' fashion. Sacrificial ewers, accompanying a central flowered pattera, are within a trellised and scalloped fretwork of ribbons and a flower-spandrelled eliptic medallion with antique-fluted frame. The frame of the table is embellished en suite with an elliptic pattera wreathed by wheat, emblematic of the harvest-goddess Ceres, and is accompanied by pastoral trophies of festive instruments. Its design and ornament reflects the antique taste promoted by The Works in Architecture by Robert and James Adam, published between 1773 and 1822.

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