A GEORGE II MAHOGANY TILT-TOP TRIPOD TABLE

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY TILT-TOP TRIPOD TABLE
The shaped lobed, veneered tilt-top above a fluted columnar stem flanked by three ring-turned Tuscan outer columns above a single flute, flanked by double C-scroll legs, the upper C-scroll trailed with acanthus and on block feet with anti-friction leather castors, the underside with Norman Adams label, the top with old repaired break and with consequential re-positioning of bearers
25¾ in. (65.5 cm.) high; 27¼ in. (69.2 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep

來源

Bought from Norman Adams, 24 February 1981.

出版

C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, rev. ed., 1985, p. 302 ('The base is exquisitely shaped ... ').

注意事項

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

拍品專文

This tea-table is designed in the George II picturesque manner with mixed architectural styles described in the 1750s as 'Modern'. Its serpentine rose-flowered top is supported by an antique fluted column and by 'gothic' cluster pillars evoking Roman altar-tripods. Its tripod 'claw' comprises acanthus-wrapped and voluted ribbon scrolls, in the French manner introduced by architects such as Isaac Ware and discussed in his Complete Body of Architecture, 1756. Thomas Chippendale featured related lobed and scalloped tablet patterns for tea-table 'China Trays' in his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754, as well as related 'claws' in his candle-stand patterns, pls. CXXX and CXX - CXXIII. Patterns for related 'very neat Claw-Tables', translated into French as 'Tables-a-un-seul-pied' were also issued by Mayhew and Ince in their Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, pl. XIII.
A table with a plain top and strikingly similar base, identical but for more acanthus-leaf carving on the feet, was almost certainly supplied in the early 1760s to Sir William Baker for Bayfordbury, Hertfordshire, and is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, rev. ed., 1954, vol. III, p. 206, fig. 14.