Lot 95
95
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CENTRE-TABLE with associated inset rectangular siena marble top in a stepped surround with breakfront cornice above a frieze carved with blind fretwork and scrolls, on square tapering legs panelled and similarly-carved, headed by flowerheads, on rounded block feet carved with fretwork, repairs to marble top

Details
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CENTRE-TABLE with associated inset rectangular siena marble top in a stepped surround with breakfront cornice above a frieze carved with blind fretwork and scrolls, on square tapering legs panelled and similarly-carved, headed by flowerheads, on rounded block feet carved with fretwork, repairs to marble top
37in. (94cm.) wide; 30½in. (77.5cm.)high; 22in. (56cm.) deep
Provenance
Corryborough, Inverness

Lot Essay

The frieze with its scroll-entwined lozenge flanked by stylised x-shaped frets features in Thomas Chippendale's 1753 engraving for a sideboard table, illustrated in The Gentleman & Cabinet-maker's Director, London 1753, pl.LIX, while the bulbous acanthus enriched feet with their confronting C-scrolls and the panelled Gothick-style tapering legs relate to his design for another sideboard table (op.cit. pl.LVIII) and a writing-table (op.cit., pl.LXXIV).

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