AN IRISH EARLY VICTORIAN GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE

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AN IRISH EARLY VICTORIAN GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE
The later serpentine yellow marble top above a stiff-leaf carved frieze and a pierced foliate and floral-carved apron centred by a Bacchic mask in a shell-shaped cartouche, the sides centred by further shells, on lion-headed and leaf-wrapped C-scroll supports, ending in lion's paws, joined by foliate and rockwork-carved scrolling stretchers centred by a shell in a sunburst cartouche
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 48½ in. (123 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (60 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The table's 'picturesque' frame is wrapped by Roman acanthus and embellished with Bacchic lion-masks displayed in shell cartouches, while its voluted truss pilasters terminate in paw feet. Patterns for related marble-topped tables featured in Thomas King's, Specimens of Furniture in the Elizabethan and Louis Quatorze Styles, 1835. Its robust carving can also be related to the work of the Del Vecchio family of Dublin carvers and frame makers (The Knight of Glin, 'Dublin Directories and Trade Labels', Furniture History, 1985, pp. 263-264).

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