Lot Essay
A closely related table is at Audley End, Essex and illustrated in R.Edwards The Dictionary of English Furniture, Rev'd.Edn.Vol.III, p.300 fig.75
Details
A polychrome painted satinwood, giltwood and gesso demi-lune side table
the top crossbanded in rosewood and decorated with ribbon tied garlands, hung with medallions and centred by a panel with a classical medallion, the frieze centred with a conforming tablet and decorated with strap-work and bellflowers, on reeded turned tapering legs --62in.(157.5cm.) wide, 34in.(88cm.) high, 36in.(66cm.) deep
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the top crossbanded in rosewood and decorated with ribbon tied garlands, hung with medallions and centred by a panel with a classical medallion, the frieze centred with a conforming tablet and decorated with strap-work and bellflowers, on reeded turned tapering legs --62in.(157.5cm.) wide, 34in.(88cm.) high, 36in.(66cm.) deep
See Illustration
Provenance
Sold anonymously Christie's King Street, 21st May 1987, lot 312