A LEAD-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE

THE END SUPPORTS EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A LEAD-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE
The end supports early 19th Century
The rectangular later white marble top above a star studded frieze on scroll legs, the sides mounted with leopard masks, each end with shallow fan apron, terminating in lead paw feet, on later plinths joined by a later undertier, adapted
34 in. (86 cm.) high; 41 in. (104.5 cm.) wide; 27¾ in. (70.5 cm.) deep

拍品專文

The table is conceived in the antique manner promoted by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. Its star-studded frieze derives from that of Hope's Egyptian chimneypiece (pl. XVI); and its Egyptian leopardess heads as well as the plinth-supported and sarcophagus-scrolled trestles from a stool and table (pl. XII, nos 5, 6 and 4).

Hope's pair of mahogany tables was sold by Christie's at the Deepdene Sale, July-August 1917, lot 827, and purchased for the Ashmolean Museum (N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, vol. II, Oxford, 1992 nos. 522 and 523).