Lot 254
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A GEORGE II GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE, the serpentine-fronted rectangular jasper-veneered slab above a pierced frieze centred by an acanthus and C-scroll spray, within a rockwork C-scroll pierced cartouche flanked by further rockwork C-scrolls, on acanthus channelled double C-scroll legs headed by confronting C-scrolls and scrolled rockwork feet, re-gilt, damages to top

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A GEORGE II GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE, the serpentine-fronted rectangular jasper-veneered slab above a pierced frieze centred by an acanthus and C-scroll spray, within a rockwork C-scroll pierced cartouche flanked by further rockwork C-scrolls, on acanthus channelled double C-scroll legs headed by confronting C-scrolls and scrolled rockwork feet, re-gilt, damages to top
74½in. (189cm.) wide; 35¼in. (89.5cm.) high; 33in.(84cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The serpentined pier-slab of colourful Sicilian jasper is supported on a richly carved and fretted frame of acanthus-wrapped volutes designed in the Louis XV 'picturesque' manner introduced by Matthias Lock's pattern-book, Six Tables, 1746. However, its rock-based console-legs and foliated-spray cartouche relate in particular to a 'Slab frame' pattern issued by Messrs. William Ince and John Mayhew in their Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, pl. LXXIV

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