Lot 141
141
Various Properties
A PAIR OF ANGLO-INDIAN SOLID ROSEWOOD CONSOLE TABLES, each with rectangular grey-veined white marble top with moulded edge above a stiff-leaf cornice and plain frieze on foliate-carved S-scrolled supports joined by a concave-fronted undertier, with reeded rectangular back with roundel angles, on castors, the back lacking mirror-plates, repair to one corner of one marble, one with two canted rectangular paper labels inscribed in ink Pier Table No. 1

Details
A PAIR OF ANGLO-INDIAN SOLID ROSEWOOD CONSOLE TABLES, each with rectangular grey-veined white marble top with moulded edge above a stiff-leaf cornice and plain frieze on foliate-carved S-scrolled supports joined by a concave-fronted undertier, with reeded rectangular back with roundel angles, on castors, the back lacking mirror-plates, repair to one corner of one marble, one with two canted rectangular paper labels inscribed in ink Pier Table No. 1
33in. (84cm.) wide; 32¼in. (82cm.) high; 22in. (56cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
The Forbes family, Castle Newe, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire

Lot Essay

These tables are thought to have been part of the original furnishings of Castle Newe, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire. This was built circa 1825 by the Forbes family who had founded the great mercantile house of Forbes and Co. in Bombay in the early 19th Century.

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