A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE
The octagonal tilt-top inlaid with a border of stylised ivy, and crossbanded, on a concave-sided tripartite spreading pedestal with tied laurel-wreath mounts, on lappeted and scrolled paw feet, on a tripartite base, with scrolled central mounts and bracket feet, sunk brass castors, previously with a further mount to the top of the pedestal, the tilt mechanism reversed
45¾ in. (116.5 cm.) diam.; 30¼ in. (77 cm.) high

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The richly-figured rosewood table is designed in the French antique manner. Its octagon top is inlaid at the corners with a ribbon band of ivy-tendrils emerging from palm-buds, while the plinth-supported and Grecian-scrolled pedestal is ormolu-enriched with laurel bas-reliefs and with bacchic lion-paw feet emerging from palm-leaves. This 'altar' form of pedestal features on a centre-table that the connoisseur Thomas Hope (d. 1831) designed for his London house in Duchess Street, while its poetic laurel-wreaths appear on one of his cabinets. This furniture was illustrated in Hope's guide entitled Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1807 (pls. 2 and 39).

The same foot mounts featured on a related plinth-supported rosewood table with revolving bookcase fitment advertised by Pelham Galleries in The Connoisseur, June 1964.