細節
AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD, POLLARD OAK AND PAINTED CENTER TABLE
MID-19TH CENTURY
With circular banded top on naturalistic bullrush-carved pedestal flanked by simulated bronze storks, on triangular plinth and bun feet - 28½in. (72.5cm.) high, 28¾in. (73cm.) diameter
PROVENANCE
Lady Rupert Nevill, sold Christie's London, 6 November 1986, lot 27
Cf. a related (but later) design by G. W. Yapp, dated 1879 (A Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, p. 498). Yapp was assistant commissioner at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and compiled the official catalogue. Many of his designs published in Art Industry, circa 1879 were of pieces exhibited at the 1851 and later exhibitions and most were in a nostalgic revivalist style.
MID-19TH CENTURY
With circular banded top on naturalistic bullrush-carved pedestal flanked by simulated bronze storks, on triangular plinth and bun feet - 28½in. (72.5cm.) high, 28¾in. (73cm.) diameter
PROVENANCE
Lady Rupert Nevill, sold Christie's London, 6 November 1986, lot 27
Cf. a related (but later) design by G. W. Yapp, dated 1879 (A Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, p. 498). Yapp was assistant commissioner at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and compiled the official catalogue. Many of his designs published in Art Industry, circa 1879 were of pieces exhibited at the 1851 and later exhibitions and most were in a nostalgic revivalist style.