A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY, ENGRAVED MARQUETRY AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED SIDE TABLES

CIRCA 1780

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY, ENGRAVED MARQUETRY AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED SIDE TABLES
Circa 1780
Each double crossbanded top with a stylized flowerhead centering the rear edge and trailing acanthus and flowerhead decoration to the outer edge, above a frieze centered by an urn flanking by knotted drapery swags, on panelled tapering square legs decorated with entwined ribbons, each headed by a patera, each inscribed in white chalk A9193, one inscribed DUVAL, the decoration refreshed, one with partial depository label
35in. (89cm) high, 48in. (122cm) wide, 20¼in. (51.5cm) deep (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 17 June 1983, lot 87.
The property of a gentleman, Sold in These Rooms, 22 October 1988, lot 138 ($38,000).

Lot Essay

These elegant table tops feature distinctive shaded foliate half-medallions within heavily engraved flowering vines issuing from flowerheads. This same inlay appears on a satinwood and marquetry pembroke table, almost certainly from the same workshop, sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 4 July 1997, lot 68 (£27,600). A pembroke with similar inlay features on a pembroke table labelled by London cabinet-maker George Simson and illustated in C. Gilbert, ed., Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p.425, fig.849 and 850. Simson's workshop produced widely varying designs primarily executed in rich timbers but which also included painted furniture, such as a painted husk-swagged table bearing his earlier label of circa 1790 (illustrated op.cit, p.424, fig.846).

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