Lot 178
178
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A SOUTH GERMAN STAINED ELM CENTRE TABLE, the shaped rectangular top with gadrooned moulding above a bead-and-ribbon moulding, the apron carved with C-scrolls and rockwork and waved on one side, the ends with asymmetric scrolls, on cabriole legs headed by rockwork and claw-and-ball feet, one leg spliced, restorations to apron, second quarter 18th Century

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A SOUTH GERMAN STAINED ELM CENTRE TABLE, the shaped rectangular top with gadrooned moulding above a bead-and-ribbon moulding, the apron carved with C-scrolls and rockwork and waved on one side, the ends with asymmetric scrolls, on cabriole legs headed by rockwork and claw-and-ball feet, one leg spliced, restorations to apron, second quarter 18th Century
56½in. (143.5cm.) wide; 35¾in. (91cm.) high; 25½in. (65cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The design of this table derives from 'Italian' prototypes of the late 17th Century. Cf. a painted Paduan centre table and a Venetian giltwood centre table, illustrated G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Veneziano del '700, Milan 1958, pl. CXLV and CLV respectively

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