A GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE

The massive rectangular grey-veined white marble top above an overhanging cornice and plain frieze, on cabriole legs with angle clasps carved with lotus and scrolling foliage, on claw-and-ball feet, minor damages to the marble, minor chips to one corner of the marble top, cuts and minor restorations to cornice
89¾in. (228cm.) wide; 34½in. (87.5cm.) high; 41½in. (105cm.) deep

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The marble-slab side table, with its serpentined-truss legs uniting Jupiter's eagle-claw and Venus's shell-badge emerging from flowered Roman acanthus, is executed in the George II antique or Palladian manner popularised by James Gibbs' Books of Architecture, 1728/1739. It also derives in part from 'Marble Table' patterns after the French manner published in William Jones' Gentleman or Builder's Companion, 1739

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