AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK, EBONISED AND MARQUETRY LIBRARY TABLE

BY JOHNSTONE AND JEANES

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK, EBONISED AND MARQUETRY LIBRARY TABLE
By Johnstone and Jeanes
The cut-cornered moulded rectangular top with geometrical border and anthemions to each corner, above a fluted frieze with a drawer to the front and reverse centred by a patera, each leg with four scrolled brackets terminating in moulded plinths, losses to the mouldings, the drawer stamped 'JOHNSTONE & JEANES 67 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON 69309'
32¼ in. (82 cm.) high; 104 in. (264 cm.) wide; 68½ in. (174 cm.) deep

Provenance

Supplied to Alexander Perceval, Esq. for Temple House, Co. Sligo, Ireland and by descent to the previous owner.

Lot Essay

The library-table top and frieze are indented and rounded at the corners, and the latter is embellished in the Italian manner with an antique-fluted and patteraed frieze; while its legs are comprised of conjoined and guttae-enriched Doric trusses. Like the folio-cabinet (lot 99), it was commissioned around 1860 by Alexander Perceval for his Italianate villa at Temple House, co. Sligo and was executed by the Bond Street firm of Messrs. Johnstone and Jeanes, whose work in the Italian style was displayed at the London 1851 International Exhibition and received praise for its 'chaste decoration'.

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