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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION PAINTED DEMI-LUNE PIER TABLE
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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION PAINTED DEMI-LUNE PIER TABLE
The later top decorated with strewn poppies, wheat ears, and husks around an open book with the left-hand page printed 'THE FIRST BOOK OF THE GEORGICS WHAT makes a plenteous [sic] harvest when to turn The fruitfoil soil, and ... to sow the corn the of sh... of oxen and of ...ine', the right-hand page with the portrait of a lady as Ceres, in an Eton blue border decorated with husks and foliage under an inset glass top, with pearled border, above a frieze decorated with a swagged urn, on turned tapering fluted legs with leaf-wrapped feet, regilt
34¼ in. (87 cm.) high; 42 in. (106.5 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep
The later top decorated with strewn poppies, wheat ears, and husks around an open book with the left-hand page printed 'THE FIRST BOOK OF THE GEORGICS WHAT makes a plenteous [sic] harvest when to turn The fruitfoil soil, and ... to sow the corn the of sh... of oxen and of ...ine', the right-hand page with the portrait of a lady as Ceres, in an Eton blue border decorated with husks and foliage under an inset glass top, with pearled border, above a frieze decorated with a swagged urn, on turned tapering fluted legs with leaf-wrapped feet, regilt
34¼ in. (87 cm.) high; 42 in. (106.5 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep