MID-18TH CENTURY

Details

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE
MID-18TH CENTURY
The circular piecrust tilt-top, on a baluster and spirally-fluted shaft, on cabriole legs with pointed pad feet, the underside with fragmentary paper label inscribed in blue ink 'COED COCH', previously with castors, repairs and losses to the edge of the top, the bearers replaced
26¾ in. (68 cm.) high; 29 in. (70.7 cm.) diameter

Provenance

John Lloyd Wynne (d. 1862) of Coed Coch, Denbighshire and by descent until sold by
A descendant of John Lloyd Wynne of Coed Coch; sold Christie's, London, 18 April 1996, lot 227.

Literature

The National Art Collections Fund Review, 1997, p. 180 [illustrated].

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

John Lloyd Wynne of Coed Coch, north Wales, employed the architect Henry Hakewill to build his villa in Denbighshire and by 1806 had chosen Gillows to furnish his house. In 1807 he paid Gillows £1,000 and by May 1808 he paid a further £800. This table, whilst from an earlier 'French' rococo age of the mid-18th century, rather than the cool Grecian manner favoured by Wynne in the early years of the 19th century, was included in the 'Coed Coch' room at the Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagan's Castle, Cardiff prior to the sale of the table and other furnishings at Christie's in 1996. John Lloyd Wynne's Gillows commission is discussed by James Peill in Christie's Magazine, April 1996, pp. 46-47.

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