A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD MARBLE AND BLUEJOHN CENTRE TABLE

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more

Details

A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD MARBLE AND BLUEJOHN CENTRE TABLE
The rectangular top with a central veneered panel with a chessboard of white marble alternating with bluejohn, flanked by rectangular Portor panels, in a Siena and white marble border, the top with foliage-carved edge, above a plain frieze with bobbin-turned edge, on a turned foliage-clasped baluster column, on heavily foliage-carved cabriole legs with scrolled feet and sunk castors
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 37 in. (94 cm.) wide; 29½ in. (75 cm.) deep

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The games-table has a marble chess-board incorporating beautifully figured tablets of Derbyshire bluejohn, while its pillar and scrolled 'claw' are richly carved with florid Roman foliage in the George IV antique manner popularised by Thomas King's, The Modern Style of Cabinet Work Exemplified, 1829 (E. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 506).

More from IMPORTANT ENGLISH FURNITURE & TAPESTRIES

View All