AN IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE

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AN IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE
The later verde antico rectangular marble top above an egg-and-dart moulding and a plain frieze, above a pierced C-scroll and foliate apron, centred by confronting C-scrolls and flowers to the front and sides, on channelled cabriole legs headed by foliage, on foliate-carved concave-sided block feet, previously with a wooden top, the left-hand 8 in. (20 cm.) of the frieze replaced
30 in. (77.5 cm.) high; 71 in. (180.5 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Probably the Lords Annaly at Luttrellstown Castle, Co. Dublin, and removed to
Holdenby House, Northamptonshire.
Bought by the vendor from Moss Harris and Sons, 11 November 1955.

Lot Essay

The marble-topped sideboard-table is conceived in the French picturesque manner of the 1740s with its flower-festooned acanthus scrolls and asymetrical central cartouche. With its serpentined truss legs terminating in foliated and hollow-sided plinths, it relates in particular to patterns published in Matthias Lock, Six Tables, 1746, (pls. 3 and 5).

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