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Lot Essay
Designed in the George II 'Roman' fashion, this marble-topped 'sideboard' table would have stood in the window pier of a parlour or eating-room. While an acanthus-wrapped echinois moulding wreaths the frame, the 'Jupiter' eagle-claws terminating its truss-scrolled columnar legs evoke the classical poets' history of the cup-bearer Ganymede. This pattern of shell-enriched leg featured on parlour chairs in the Dukes of Leeds' collection at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire (R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed, 1954, vol. I, p. 254, fig. 85).
LORD PLENDER
Lord Plender of Sunridge was one of several distinguished collectors of English furniture advised by the furniture historian R. W. Symonds (d. 1958) and his collection formed the basis of several articles by Symonds, published in Apollo and the German journal Pantheon in 1930-31 (C. Streeter & M. Barker, 'A Bibliography of Publications by Robert Wemyss Symonds', Furniture History, 1975, pp. 88-107). Symonds included several pieces from Lord Plender's collection in his seminal book on 18th century English furniture Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, London, 1940, and also in his earlier publication, Old English Walnut and Lacquer Furniture, 1923.
LORD PLENDER
Lord Plender of Sunridge was one of several distinguished collectors of English furniture advised by the furniture historian R. W. Symonds (d. 1958) and his collection formed the basis of several articles by Symonds, published in Apollo and the German journal Pantheon in 1930-31 (C. Streeter & M. Barker, 'A Bibliography of Publications by Robert Wemyss Symonds', Furniture History, 1975, pp. 88-107). Symonds included several pieces from Lord Plender's collection in his seminal book on 18th century English furniture Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, London, 1940, and also in his earlier publication, Old English Walnut and Lacquer Furniture, 1923.