Lot 79
79
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE with chamfered square tip-up top and curved gallery pierced and carved with running foliate scrolls edged with overlapping husks on open birdcage and fluted shaft with baluster knops carved with acanthus, the cabriole legs carved with acanthus and wavy scrolls ending in claw-and-ball feet, the gallery repaired, the shaft cracked, one leg cracked, one with small repair to foot

Details
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE with chamfered square tip-up top and curved gallery pierced and carved with running foliate scrolls edged with overlapping husks on open birdcage and fluted shaft with baluster knops carved with acanthus, the cabriole legs carved with acanthus and wavy scrolls ending in claw-and-ball feet, the gallery repaired, the shaft cracked, one leg cracked, one with small repair to foot
24¼in. (63cm.) square; 29½in. (75cm.) high
Provenance
Ernest Raphael, Esq., Catteshall Manor, Godalming, Surrey, sold Sotheby's London, 9 November 1945, lot 129
Mrs I.R. Dodgson, offered Christie's London, 25 June 1953, lot 83 (unsold)
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 19 June 1970, lot 97, #780 to Patch

Lot Essay

A tripod table of similarly unusual design was sold at Sotheby's London, 19 June 1970, lot 97. There is also a tripod table with a square top, although not chamfered, in the Victoria and Albert Museum (W.66-1953), illustrated in Desmond FitzGerald, Georgian Furniture, H.M.S.O., London, 1969, pl.58. John Mayhew and William Ince published a design for a 'Voider' or tray of similar shape in The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, pl. XV

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