AN EARLY VICTORIAN WALNUT AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE

INCORPORATING SOME LATE 17TH CENTURY ELEMENTS

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN WALNUT AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE
Incorporating some late 17th Century elements
The shaped eared rectangular top inlaid with a central scrolled cartouche of a lady and a gentleman having a picnic, surounded by scrolled flowers and foliage, above a plain frieze with geometric band centred by a rounded rectangular tablet inlaid with flowers, with conforming tablet to the reverse, the multiple-arched apron with turned finials, on spirally-turned legs joined by a waved X-shaped stretcher with ring-turned urn finial, on ring-turned bun feet with sunk castors, lacking two hanging finials to the apron, the castors stamped 'COPES PATENT'
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 32¾ in. (83.5 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The William IV table, veneered with old marquetry and supported on a bobbin-enriched frame with spiralled legs and serpentined stretchers, reflects antiquarian style popularised by T. King's Specimens of Furniture in the Elizabethan and Louis Quatorze Styles, 1835. The top is inlaid with flowered acanthus framing a rustic vignette in the 18th Century German fashion, while the flowered acanthus tablet of the frieze dates from the late 17th Century.

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