Lot Essay
The tray-top 'waiters' are supported on baluster pillars and a serpentined 'claw' in the manner of a 'Supper Table' pattern in T. Malton's Compleat Treatise on Perspective of 1775.
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Details
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY THREE-TIER DUMB-WAITER
The dished moulded circular tiers of increasing size supported by part spirally-turned and ring-turned baluster stems, on tripod base with cabriole legs and pointed pad feet, raised on brass castors, with remains of printed depository label '... Cross'.
48 in. (122 cm.) high; 24½ in. (62 cm.) diameter
The dished moulded circular tiers of increasing size supported by part spirally-turned and ring-turned baluster stems, on tripod base with cabriole legs and pointed pad feet, raised on brass castors, with remains of printed depository label '... Cross'.
48 in. (122 cm.) high; 24½ in. (62 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Bought from Norman Adams, 27 July 1983.
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