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In the Wanstead sale there were three card tables, the first appearing on 13 June 1822 described as:-
'Lot 22 A SPLENDID SERPENTINE SHAPE CARD TABLE, TOP LINED WITH COSTLY CRIMSON GENOA VELVET, WITH STAMPED BORDER, AND GILT SCALLOPED SHELL POOL TRAYS, BRASS MOUNTED EDGE, On a superb carved and gilt Raffle-Leaf Scroll Tripod Frame, WITH MASSIVE HEAD ORNAMENTS AT THE FOUR CORNERS, And Solid Grecian Scroll Claws and Ball Feet, on Casters, crimson Chints Case, &c. 3-feet-2 Square.'
The second was sold on the 26 June 1822, also lot 22:-
'A SPLENDID SERPENTINE-SHAPE CARD TABLE, TOP LINED WITH COSTLY CRIMSON GENOA VELVET, with stamped border, gilt scalloped shell pool trays, and brass moulded edge, on a superb carved and gilt raffle-leaf tripod scroll frame, with massive head ornaments at the four corners, and solid Grecian scroll claw, and ball feet, on casters, crimson chints case, &c. 3-feet-2 square.'
These golden card-tables (lots 22-23), corresponding to the Drawing Room central Loo table, are designed in the magnificent Regency Louis Quatorze or French/Grecian fashion promoted in particular by the Wyatt dynasty of architects. With their punched gilt-gesso decoration, bearded masks and scallop-shells on eagle-claw feet, they represent a conscious 'antiquarian' revival of Kentian vocabulary. Counter-wells are sunk in the columnar corners of its baize-lined top; while its antique-stippled frieze is wreathed by a ribbon-twist guilloche and supported at the angles by acanthus-wreathed heads of bacchic satyrs. These issue from voluted truss pillars; while the trussed consoles of its antique-fluted altar plinth terminate in Jupiter eagle-claws. These festive heads, in the French picturesque style also called Chippendale in the l9th century, relate for instance to one designed by Thomas Johnson in 1761 for a console table that was reissued by John Weale (d.1862) around 1830 under the title Chippendale's Ornaments and Interior Decorations in the Old French Style (H. Hayward, Thomas Johnson and the English Rococo, London, 1964, pl.18).
Amongst the leading firms influenced by the Wyatt's richly foliated French style was Messrs. Gillow of London and Lancaster, who introduced it in many of their room designs executed around 1820 (M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, 1965, p.105).
The 'HS' brand presumably stands for Heirlooms Settlement. It does not appear on any of the Wrotham or St. James' Square furniture, or on any of the other Leigh Court pieces so far identified.
'Lot 22 A SPLENDID SERPENTINE SHAPE CARD TABLE, TOP LINED WITH COSTLY CRIMSON GENOA VELVET, WITH STAMPED BORDER, AND GILT SCALLOPED SHELL POOL TRAYS, BRASS MOUNTED EDGE, On a superb carved and gilt Raffle-Leaf Scroll Tripod Frame, WITH MASSIVE HEAD ORNAMENTS AT THE FOUR CORNERS, And Solid Grecian Scroll Claws and Ball Feet, on Casters, crimson Chints Case, &c. 3-feet-2 Square.'
The second was sold on the 26 June 1822, also lot 22:-
'A SPLENDID SERPENTINE-SHAPE CARD TABLE, TOP LINED WITH COSTLY CRIMSON GENOA VELVET, with stamped border, gilt scalloped shell pool trays, and brass moulded edge, on a superb carved and gilt raffle-leaf tripod scroll frame, with massive head ornaments at the four corners, and solid Grecian scroll claw, and ball feet, on casters, crimson chints case, &c. 3-feet-2 square.'
These golden card-tables (lots 22-23), corresponding to the Drawing Room central Loo table, are designed in the magnificent Regency Louis Quatorze or French/Grecian fashion promoted in particular by the Wyatt dynasty of architects. With their punched gilt-gesso decoration, bearded masks and scallop-shells on eagle-claw feet, they represent a conscious 'antiquarian' revival of Kentian vocabulary. Counter-wells are sunk in the columnar corners of its baize-lined top; while its antique-stippled frieze is wreathed by a ribbon-twist guilloche and supported at the angles by acanthus-wreathed heads of bacchic satyrs. These issue from voluted truss pillars; while the trussed consoles of its antique-fluted altar plinth terminate in Jupiter eagle-claws. These festive heads, in the French picturesque style also called Chippendale in the l9th century, relate for instance to one designed by Thomas Johnson in 1761 for a console table that was reissued by John Weale (d.1862) around 1830 under the title Chippendale's Ornaments and Interior Decorations in the Old French Style (H. Hayward, Thomas Johnson and the English Rococo, London, 1964, pl.18).
Amongst the leading firms influenced by the Wyatt's richly foliated French style was Messrs. Gillow of London and Lancaster, who introduced it in many of their room designs executed around 1820 (M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, 1965, p.105).
The 'HS' brand presumably stands for Heirlooms Settlement. It does not appear on any of the Wrotham or St. James' Square furniture, or on any of the other Leigh Court pieces so far identified.