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The Italian slab, inlaid with a micro-mosaic of varie-coloured marbles, encloses a medallion of Pliny's Doves, after the celebrated antiquity in the Vatican Museum. The pattern corrresponds to that of a table sold from the Collection of Mrs D. Hart, sold in these rooms, 4 December 1969, lot 66.
The boldly carved base in this lot, with a pedestal wreathed by ribbon-guilloches and supported on a reed-gadrooned plinth, relates to the antique fashion of the 1840s and popularised by William Smee's Designs for Furniture, 1850. Two other tables, with identical bases of oak, one with a virtually identical marble top, were sold in these rooms, 2 October 1997, lots 46-47.
The boldly carved base in this lot, with a pedestal wreathed by ribbon-guilloches and supported on a reed-gadrooned plinth, relates to the antique fashion of the 1840s and popularised by William Smee's Designs for Furniture, 1850. Two other tables, with identical bases of oak, one with a virtually identical marble top, were sold in these rooms, 2 October 1997, lots 46-47.