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A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT AND MARQUETRY PIER TABLE
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A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT AND MARQUETRY PIER TABLE

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A WILLIAM AND MARY WALNUT AND MARQUETRY PIER TABLE
The rectangular top with a central oval panel profusely inlaid with scrolling flowers and foliage, surrounding an urn with a pair of birds filled with flowers, the spandrels with further flowers and butterflies, above a frieze drawer with a pair of oval panels conformingly inlaid, on later ring-turned baluster legs joined by a waved X-shaped platform stretcher with an oval panel inlaid with flowers, on later bun feet, the handles replaced and replacements to veneer on the stretcher
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 37 in. (94 cm.) wide; 24½ in. (62 cm.) deep
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The dressing-table top is flower-inlaid and mosaiced with a medallion compartment in the Louis Quatorze manner, and evokes perpetual spring. A festive reed-gadrooned vase is displayed on a tablet borne by Pan, the Arcadian satyr-deity, and attended by insect-seeking birds perched on flowered trusses of Roman acanthus. In addition, butterflies attend bouquets that are borne in the spandrels by dolphins, that evoke the nature deity's triumph. Such stately vases were popularised by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636-1699), and by the decorative engravings issued around 1700 by Daniel Marot, 'architect' to William III. The latter included Vases de la Maison Royale and Nouveaux Livre de Tableaux de porte et cheminée utiles aux peintres en fleurs.

The Moorfields cabinet-maker Thomas Pistor Senior (d. 1705) is credited with supplying in 1685 a related flowered pier-set, comprising a 'Looking glass', table and stands that is now at Levens Hall, Cumbria. The general composition of the present medallion, with its vase and flowered and voluted acanthus, also relates to that of a dressing-table at Ham House, Surrey, which has been dated to the 1670s (A. Turpin,'Thomas Pistor, Father and Son, and Levens Hall', Furniture History, 2000, pp.43-60).