AN EARLY VICTORIAN GILTMETAL AND GILT-GESSO TRIPOD TABLE, the circular marble top inlaid with Pliny's Doves between borders of green, yellow, grey and black marble, the frieze decorated with acanthus scrolls and scallop shells, on scrolled supports joined by a central rosette, on downswept legs cast with acanthus on paw feet, the marble top with label inscribed in ink Joseph Borg Marble, Mosaid, and Alabaster Worker, Straia Levante, No 19, Valletta Malta, the base with inscription Countess of Sheffield and stamped PENYDARR, with depository label inscribed MRS DORMER

Details
AN EARLY VICTORIAN GILTMETAL AND GILT-GESSO TRIPOD TABLE, the circular marble top inlaid with Pliny's Doves between borders of green, yellow, grey and black marble, the frieze decorated with acanthus scrolls and scallop shells, on scrolled supports joined by a central rosette, on downswept legs cast with acanthus on paw feet, the marble top with label inscribed in ink Joseph Borg Marble, Mosaid, and Alabaster Worker, Straia Levante, No 19, Valletta Malta, the base with inscription Countess of Sheffield and stamped PENYDARR, with depository label inscribed MRS DORMER
26½in. (67.5cm.) diam.; 31in. (78.5cm.) high
Provenance
Countess of Sheffield
Presented by Princess Adelaide, to whom she had been a lady-in-waiting

More from English Furniture

View All
View All