Lot 89
89
A REGENCY MAPLE AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED TRIPOD TABLE
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN, FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF COLONEL NORMAN COLVILLE M.C. (1893-1974) (LOTS 60-92 AND 201-202)
A REGENCY MAPLE AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED TRIPOD TABLE

WITH INSET FLORENTINE 18TH CENTURY PIETRE DURE PLAQUE

Details
A REGENCY MAPLE AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED TRIPOD TABLE
With inset Florentine 18th Century Pietre Dure plaque
The octagonal top with anthemion border and central plaque depicting a classical lady holding an urn on a pedestal, on a fennel bulb-shaped column and square tapering panelled legs, the top with shrinkage crack, the underside of the top later veneered and the bearers and platform replaced
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 22¼ in. (56.5 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep
Provenance
Acquired by Colonel Norman Colville M.C.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The octagonal top, wreathed with a painted palm-flowered ribbon-guilloche in the Grecian manner, displays a marble tablet representing a scene from Homer's Iliad with Andromache at the altar.
A related tablet of a figure, dressed in the fashion of the 1790s, is amongst the pietre dure masterpieces displayed in the Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence (A. Giusti, The Museum of Opificio, Florence, p. 41). A table inset with another pietre dure tablet is at Southill, Bedfordshire (M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, 1948, fig. 141).

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