A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED CARD-TABLE

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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED CARD-TABLE
Crossbanded overall in rosewood and tulipwood, the shaped breakfront top with a floral-garlanded border of roses and Morning Glory, the centre with a shaped rectangular grisaille panel of two ladies and a child running to a temple, enclosing a blue baize-lined playing-surface, above a plain frieze, on square tapering legs inlaid with ebonised lines, with signs of additional panels on the feet
29 in. (74 cm.) high; 37 in. (94 cm.) wide; 18¼ in. (46.5 cm.) deep

来源

The Earls of Bessborough, Stansted Park, Rowlands Castle, Hampshire, sold Sotheby's house sale, 5 October 1999, lot 30.

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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

This elliptic and hollow-cornered table-top pattern was introduced around 1780 and featured in Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788 (pl. 66). This golden table has a flower-wreathed border of Venus's sacred roses entwined by convulvulus and this garlands a central grisaille tablet, whose pastoral scene celebrates lyric poetry and depicts a Grecian lyre laid beside a temple that is attended by nymphs accompanied by Cupid.
Flower festooned furniture was also popularised around 1780s by the Mayfair botanical artist George Brookshaw (d. 1823) of Curzon Street and Great Marlborough Street, who served as Peintre-ébéniste to George, Prince of Wales, later George IV. A related flower-painted table of this form has been attributed to the Long Acre firm, titled from 1790 as Seddon, Sons and Shackleton (C. Gilbert, 'Seddon, Sons and Shackleton', Furniture History, 1997, pp. 1-5, fig. 21).