Lot 133
133
A GEORGE IV GONCALO ALVEZ, SPECIMEN BLUE JOHN, SLATE AND JASPER CENTRE TABLE, the rectangular top inset with a geometrically-patterned selection of specimen fluorspar centred by a panel of petrified wood, in a scrolling and engraved foliate slate border and mahogany outer border with moulded edge, on turned reeded spreading legs with lotus-leaf cup and gadrooned base standing on a platform with scrolled foliate feet

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A GEORGE IV GONCALO ALVEZ, SPECIMEN BLUE JOHN, SLATE AND JASPER CENTRE TABLE, the rectangular top inset with a geometrically-patterned selection of specimen fluorspar centred by a panel of petrified wood, in a scrolling and engraved foliate slate border and mahogany outer border with moulded edge, on turned reeded spreading legs with lotus-leaf cup and gadrooned base standing on a platform with scrolled foliate feet
29½in. (75cm.) wide; 28½in. (72.5cm.) high; 22½in. (57.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A related Derbyshire slate slab inlaid with a mosaic of bluejohn and other marbles was sold by Viscount Falkland in these Rooms, 17 February 1991, lot 103. The frame's plinth-supported columns enriched with reeds and palm-leaves, as well as the acanthus-scrolled feet appear on a table designed for the Earl of Cornwallis in June 1825 by Gillows (the design is entered in the firm's Estimate Sketch Books, no. 3433, preserved in the Westminster City Library).

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