20TH CENTURY

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A pair of carved giltwood marble top tables
20th Century
After a model by Karl Friedrich Schinkel recorded in the Kaiser Friedrich Palais, Berlin in 1888, with rectangular marble tops, the moulded edge raised on sphinx end supports, with floral garlands and paw feet, and joined by anthemion roundels filled with classical figures depicting 'sculpture' and 'painting' and 'Florida' and the 'the Cupid seller' after J.M. Vien from the Idylls of Apuleis and joined by a reeded ring turned stretcher
34¼in. (87cm.) high; 46¼in. (117cm.) wide; 22¼in. (56cm.) deep (2)

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Lot Essay

The origin of these tables is based on a pair of tables after a model by Karl Friedrich Schinkel recorded in the Kaiser Friedrich Palais, Berlin in 1888 and sold in a sale of Highly Important Continental Furniture in Sotheby's, London, 10 June 1998, lot 104. The attribution was made on stylistic grounds by comparing them to related pieces of furniture 'in the Grecian taste' designed by Schindler.

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