A REGENCE GILTWOOD TABLE A GIBIER

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 70-73)

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A REGENCE GILTWOOD TABLE A GIBIER
The moulded rectangular rosso levanto marble top above a trellis-work frieze and sides, the pierced apron with flowers and foliate scrolls intertwined with C-scrolls, the sides with pierced foliate aprons centred by a shell, on square tapering legs with shaped capitals decorated with shells and scrolling foliage above Cupid's quiver trophies, joined by an X-shaped scrolling stretcher with central platform centred by a sunflowerhead and decorated with foliage, on acanthus-clasped square tapering feet, with paper label inscribed in ink '1371' and with indistinct chalk inscription 'bo...', restorations, and refreshments to gilding, the frieze with remains of screw-holes and blocks that previously raised the marble, the marble with restored break

Provenance

Acquired by Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt. (1888-1939) for 25, Park Lane, London W.1.
Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 6 December 1979, lot 136.

Sale room notice

The measurements of this lot are 55 1/2 in. (141 cm.) wide; 32 3/4 in. (83 cm.) high; 25 1/4 in. (64 cm.) deep.

Lot Essay

This table's hermed legs, with Venus-shell badges suspended beneath acanthus-wrapped capitals, derives in part from one of Louis XIV's tables in the Cabinet des Médailles, Versailles, illustrated by Pierre Lepaute (d.1716) in his Livre de Tables of 1705. Its overall design and treatment shares much in common with that sold in the Keck collection, Sotheby's New York, 4 December 1991, lot 246.

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