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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK AND HOLLY LIBRARY TABLE
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK AND HOLLY LIBRARY TABLE

BY G. J. MORANT

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK AND HOLLY LIBRARY TABLE
By G. J. Morant
The rounded rectangular green leather-lined top with ivy-leaf border, above a high relief oak-entwined frieze with two drawers on one long side, on twin lion monopodia and rectangular platforms joined by a stretcher, concealed castors
31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 72¾ in. (185 cm.) wide; 41¾ in. (106 cm.) deep
Provenance
Supplied to M. P. W. Boulton and by descent to
Major Eustace Robb, Tew Park, Great Tew, Oxfordshire, sold Christie's house sale, 27-29 May 1987, lot 199.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The table's robustly carved trestles comprise addorsed griffin monopodia, and these chimera, being associated with the poetry deity Apollo, were an appropriate ornament for M. P. W. Boulton's great library/room-of-entertainment. Such griffin monopodia had appeared in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, and on a library-chair pattern issued in Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1813.
Morant's rejected design for a table, with winged bacchic ram monopodia, is shown above.

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