Lot 226
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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CONSOLE TABLE, the later Victorian moulded serpentine-fronted black-painted slate top above a similarly shaped later cornice, the moulded panelled frieze with canted angles, above a pierced apron festooned with swagged drapery and centred by a double scallop-shell with acanthus boss, on acanthus-headed scrolled tapering legs carved with tapering concentric circles on a ponced ground and on foliate scrolled feet,

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY CONSOLE TABLE, the later Victorian moulded serpentine-fronted black-painted slate top above a similarly shaped later cornice, the moulded panelled frieze with canted angles, above a pierced apron festooned with swagged drapery and centred by a double scallop-shell with acanthus boss, on acanthus-headed scrolled tapering legs carved with tapering concentric circles on a ponced ground and on foliate scrolled feet,
63in. (160cm.) wide; 28¼in. (72cm.) deep; 27¼in. (69cm.) high

Lot Essay

The cut-cornered frame, with its triumphal palm-wrapped and acanthus-enriched 'Venus' scallop-shell badge and its veil-drapery suspended from the volutes of trussed legs enriched with foliage and ribbon-guilloche, is designed in the 'antique' or Palladian style introduced by William Kent (d.1748), Master Carpenter of King George II's Board of Works. The triumphal Venus-shell badge relates to that of Prince Frederick's barge illustrated in J. Vardy, Some Designs of Mr Inigo Jones and Mr William Kent, 1744, pl. 53, and 'Kent' tables now displayed at the Sir John Soane Museum (see P. Thornton, 'Soane's Kent Tables', Furniture History Society Journal, 1993, fig. 1). The table's ornament also relates to that of chairs and a pier-table supplied under Kent's direction in the 1730s for Houghton Hall, Norfolk (see M. Jourdain, William Kent, London, 1948, figs. 138 and 139)

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