A GEORGE III HAREWOOD, MARQUETRY, WHITE-PAINTED, GILTWOOD AND GILT CARTON-PIERRE PIER TABLE

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A GEORGE III HAREWOOD, MARQUETRY, WHITE-PAINTED, GILTWOOD AND GILT CARTON-PIERRE PIER TABLE

THE LEGS LATER BELOW THE CAPITALS

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A GEORGE III HAREWOOD, MARQUETRY, WHITE-PAINTED, GILTWOOD AND GILT CARTON-PIERRE PIER TABLE
The legs later below the capitals
The demi-lune top banded in satinwood inlaid with scrolls, centred by a palm-wrapped ellipse enclosing Ceres holding her Cornucopia of Plenty, above a foliate-inlaid frieze centred by a portrait medallion of a woman's head, on fluted tapering legs headed by paterae, on tapering feet
31¾ in. (80.5 cm.) high; 50 in. (127 cm.) wide; 17¾ in. (45 cm.) deep

Provenance

Mrs W. King, sold Sotheby's London, 8 December 1978, lot 224.
Bought through Gerald Spyer Antiques, 12 December 1978 for £2,700.

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

Embellished in the elegant George III 'antique' manner introduced in the late 1760s, the elliptic and 'arabesque' inlaid table is carved and gilded with a pearl-and-palm wrapped frame and columnar legs capped by Apollonian Palmyra sunflower tablets. Its palm-wreathed 'Roman' medallion of the Summer and harvest deity Ceres, emblematic of Peace and Plenty, is accompanied by flowered libation paterae and a portrait medallion in the frieze .

A related figurative medallion appears on a pair of pier tables sold anonymously in these Rooms, 18 May 1961, lot 36. Other related medallions appear on a commode that has been attributed to the Golden Square firm of Messrs. Mayhew and Ince (L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, no. 27).

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