Lot 71
71
A MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE, the waved square top with baluster gallery inlaid with a brass line and pierced at the centres with carrying-handle motifs supported on an upturned tripod and fluted parcel-gilt shaft on tripod cabriole base carved with overlapping ivy leaves and bellflowers highlighted in gilt and ending in scrolled foliate feet and blocks, two of the tripod supports damaged, the tray top mid-18th Century

Details
A MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE, the waved square top with baluster gallery inlaid with a brass line and pierced at the centres with carrying-handle motifs supported on an upturned tripod and fluted parcel-gilt shaft on tripod cabriole base carved with overlapping ivy leaves and bellflowers highlighted in gilt and ending in scrolled foliate feet and blocks, two of the tripod supports damaged, the tray top mid-18th Century
24½in. (62cm.) square; 28¾in. (73cm.) high
Provenance
Bought from Mallett, 3 May 1966, for #2500

Lot Essay

The same very unusual upturned tripod support occurs on a tripod table, sold from the Collection of Sir Anthony Crofton Thornhill, Bt., sold Christie's London, 16 June 1949, lot 95

A mahogany reading-table supplied in 1770 by William France to the Earl of Mansfield for the Library at Kenwood, Hampstead, has flying brackets similar to the above examples (illustrated in A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, pl.392)

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