Lot 159
159
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE
A VICTORIAN PINE SIDE TABLE of George II style, the later canted rectangular green marble top above a foliate cornice and oak-swagged pierced frieze centred by a lion-mask, on imbricated scrolled legs headed by stiff-leaves and with guilloche-carved scroll feet

Details
A VICTORIAN PINE SIDE TABLE of George II style, the later canted rectangular green marble top above a foliate cornice and oak-swagged pierced frieze centred by a lion-mask, on imbricated scrolled legs headed by stiff-leaves and with guilloche-carved scroll feet
96½in. (245.5cm.) wide; 35in. (89cm.) high; 38½in. (98cm.) deep
Provenance
Horringer Mnaor, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk

Lot Essay

This table is designed in the architect William Kent's Palladian manner with imbricated and serpentined-truss legs of the pattern that he invented for the oak-festooned pier-tables at Houghton Hall, Norfolk (see: M. Jourdain, The Work of William Kent, London, 1948, p. 176)

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