SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A pietra dura, specimen marble and oak centre table
Second half 19th Century
The circular top centered with a medallion inlaid with butterflies, surrounded by radiating concave-ended specimen marbles including Siena, verde antico, rouge, and others, within a conforming specimen marble border, above a plain frieze supported by a ring-turned splaying shaft, terminating in an egg-and-dart moulding, above a gadrooned stepped base, with a label to the underside of the top reading Franck Ward's Depositories Executors of the Late Viscount Mountgarret, the marble top Italian, the base English
28 1/8 in. (71.4 cm.) high; 30 1/8 in. (76.5 cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

The Italian slab is inlaid with a mosaic of varie-coloured marbles enclosing micro-mosaic medaillions of butterflies. The boldly carved bases in this lot and the following, with pedestals wreathed by ribbon-guilloches and supported on reed-gadrooned plinths, relate to the antique fashion of the 1840s and popularised by William Smee's Designs for Furniture, 1850. It is possible that the marble top was acquired by Thomas Rawson of Nidd Hall, Knaresborough, whose daughter Frances Penelope (d. 1886) married Henry Edmund, 13th Viscount Mountgarret (d. 1900) in 1844.
A table with a similar top was sold in thes rooms 26 March 1987, lot 84.

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