ALTERED, AND NOW OF DIFFERING SIZES

细节

A NEAR PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY PIER TABLES
Altered, and now of differing sizes
Each with rectangular rosewood crossbanded top with guilloche-carved edge above a plain frieze, on stop-fluted square tapering legs headed by paterae, on panelled block feet, the feet cut through above the block foot
31 in. (79 cm.) high; one 46 in. (117 cm.) wide, the other 50½ in. (128 cm.) wide; one 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep, the other 25½ in. (65 cm.) deep (2)

来源

Almost certainly supplied to John Harvey, Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire, and by descent until sold anonymously, Christie's Melbourne, 28-29 May 2001, lot 281 (AUS$135,125).

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拍品专文

The sideboard tables are designed in the elegant 'antique' manner introduced around 1770 by Robert Adam, court architect to George III. The fine figured mahogany tops are richly fretted with an entwined ribbon-guilloche, their frames are flowered with 'Apollo' sunflowered paterae, while their plinth supported and 'herm' tapering legs are antique fluted and reed enriched.

Their architecture and ornament, including the ribbon-guilloche moulding, relates to that of hall chairs designed about 1770 for Harewood House, Yorkshire, by the St. Martin's Lane cabinet-maker Thomas Chippendale (d. 1779) (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, vol. II, London, 1978, fig. 159).

Ickwell Bury was built by John Harvey in the 1680s and lived in by the Harveys until 1924. Sadly it was destroyed by a fine in 1937. The house is illustrated before the fire, in Country Life, 5 May 1955, p. 1177, no. 10 [and shown above].