Lot Essay
These console tables were purchased from Frank Partridge & Sons on 12 August 1953. A copy of the invoice is included in the lot.
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A PAIR OF MAHOGANY AND GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES, each with rectangular top above a deep panelled frieze with entrelac and rosette beneath lotus-leaf, supported on twin channelled ram's-head monopodiae headed by floral paterae and suspending berried laurel swags, the cabriole legs carved with a stylised stiff leaf with square collar upon hairy paw feet, the gilding retouched in areas, with pencil inscription to both underside '24/10/52', the legs late 18th Century/early 19th Century
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A PAIR OF MAHOGANY AND GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLES, each with rectangular top above a deep panelled frieze with entrelac and rosette beneath lotus-leaf, supported on twin channelled ram's-head monopodiae headed by floral paterae and suspending berried laurel swags, the cabriole legs carved with a stylised stiff leaf with square collar upon hairy paw feet, the gilding retouched in areas, with pencil inscription to both underside '24/10/52', the legs late 18th Century/early 19th Century
27in. (69cm.) wide; 37¼in. (95cm.) high; 15¾in. (40cm.) deep (2)
27in. (69cm.) wide; 37¼in. (95cm.) high; 15¾in. (40cm.) deep (2)