A GEORGE I GILT-GESSO SIDE TABLE

IN THE MANNER OF JAMES MOORE

细节

A GEORGE I GILT-GESSO SIDE TABLE
In the manner of James Moore
The rounded rectangular moulded top with re-entrant corners and decorated with a symetrical arrangement of strapwork, foliage and scallop shells, above a conformingly-decorated frieze with a conforming shaped apron, on cabriole legs with claw feet headed by scrolled acanthus, some regessoing
33 in. (84 cm.) wide; 28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 21¼ in. (54 cm.) deep

来源

Major-General Sir John (d.1946) and Lady Duncan (d. 1960), Marchfield, Binfield, Berks.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

拍品专文

The pier-table top, richly modelled in bas-relief, comprises palm-flowers and an acanthus-flower framed within a flowered ribbon-scrolled mosaic in the Louis XIV antique manner. The fashion was popularised in the early 18th Century by the ornamental pattern-book or Oeuvres of 1712 issued by William III's 'architect' Daniel Marot (d.1752). Similar patterned tops feature on a pair of pier-tables at Blair Castle, Scotland (A. Coleridge, 'William Masters and some early 18th Century furniture at Blair Castle, Scotland', The Connoisseur, October, 1963, p.78, fig 2). Among the most celebrated cabinet-makers working in this technique was James Moore (d.1726) of Short's Gardens, St. Giles-in-the-Fields.