A QUEEN ANNE GILT-GESSO CENTER TABLE

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A QUEEN ANNE GILT-GESSO CENTER TABLE
EARLY 18TH CENTURY

The rectangular top with foliate strapwork centering a foliate cartouche and with gadrooned edge above a leaf tip frieze, on squared tapering legs with foliate bases joined by scrolling stretchers supporting platforms and with gadrooned bun feet 30½in. (77cm.) high, 39½in. (100cm.) wide, 23in. (58cm.) deep

Provenance

Sold in these Rooms, 9 October 1993, lot 150

Lot Essay

A nearly identical table from the Velvet Drawing Room at Saltram House, Devonshire is illustrated in A.T. Bolton, The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, vol.II, cover illustration. Another similar is illustrated in O. Brackett, English Furniture Illustrated, rev. edn., 1950, p.137.