Lot 34
34
AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD AND WHITE-PAINTED SIDE TABLE OF SEMI-LUNE OUTLINE, with a white marble top above a moulded edge, the frieze centred by a mask and with foliate scrolls, vines and birds, on four square-tapering fluted legs headed by busts with husk festoons and waisted stepped top, above beaded collar and with palm leaf sabot and block feet, second half 19th Century

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AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD AND WHITE-PAINTED SIDE TABLE OF SEMI-LUNE OUTLINE, with a white marble top above a moulded edge, the frieze centred by a mask and with foliate scrolls, vines and birds, on four square-tapering fluted legs headed by busts with husk festoons and waisted stepped top, above beaded collar and with palm leaf sabot and block feet, second half 19th Century
58in. (147.3cm.) wide; 35¾in. (91cm.) high; 26¼in. (67cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This table relates closely to a pier table and pier glass designed by Robert Adam for Robert Child's Osterley Park, Middlesex; illustrated in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1911, Vol III, p. 28, fig. 15.

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