A GEORGE III BLACK AND GILT-JAPANED PIER TABLE

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A GEORGE III BLACK AND GILT-JAPANED PIER TABLE
Decorated overall with foliate boarders, the D-shaped top with recessed front corners and centred by a canted rectangular panel with a Chinese scene flanked by a pair of putti amidst floral garlands, above a frieze centred by four putti, the front corners with goats, on turned tapering fluted legs and tapering feet, refreshments to the decoration
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43 cm.) deep

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VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price and buyer's premium when purchased by non-EU purchasers.

拍品专文

The pattern for this pier-table top, with sunk and rounded corners and columnar legs, was published in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793 (pl. IV). Sheraton commented on the effect of 'rich and elegant' japanning, and the ground decoration of this table can be interpreted as 'Etruscan' black or Chinese black lacquer. In addition its frieze is decorated with Chinese pastoral vignettes framing a palm-wreathed tablet of the youths of antiquity sporting with Cupid's target, while the flower-festooned top depicts Cupid and Hymen attending a Chinese landscape vignette with a fisherman. The fusion of antique and Chinese taste in the 1790s was a feature of the Marine Pavilion, Brighton, created by George, Prince of Wales, later George IV.