A REGENCY BROWN OAK, ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT OCCASSIONAL TABLE, the circular top with a gadrooned border above a simulated rosewood frieze, the turned columnar shaft enclosed by waisted scrolled lotus-leaves, on a concave-fronted square platform and winged scrolled stiff-leaf monopodiae, a section of the simulated rosewood moulding lacking, with depository label Truscott & Co.'s Depository, with chalk inscription de Beer

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A REGENCY BROWN OAK, ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT OCCASSIONAL TABLE, the circular top with a gadrooned border above a simulated rosewood frieze, the turned columnar shaft enclosed by waisted scrolled lotus-leaves, on a concave-fronted square platform and winged scrolled stiff-leaf monopodiae, a section of the simulated rosewood moulding lacking, with depository label Truscott & Co.'s Depository, with chalk inscription de Beer
30in. 976cm.) diam.; 30¾in. (78cm.) high

拍品專文

The Grecian pattern for this table's plinth-supported pillar with palms and bacchic lion-feet featured in John Loudon's Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture, 1833, no. 1953. In discussing such tables, which were designed en suite with card-tables, he recommended the use of rosewood or some rare foreign wood. The foliage-plume of the pillar, however, initially derived from a table illustrated in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, London, 1808, pl. 75