CIRCA 1780

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY CURVED TABLES
CIRCA 1780
Each with a curved back and fluted frieze fitted with a drawer, on square fluted legs headed with an oval medallion and terminating in moulded feet, each with a paper label encorporating a ducal coronet surmounting a letter 'N', one with 'CLUMBER 2152' and the other with 'CLUMBER 2153'
31 ins. (75 cm.) high; 41½ ins. (105 cm.) wide; 22 ins. (56 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme (d. 1755) for Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, and by descent until sold by The Trustees of the 7th and 9th Dukes of Newcastle Will Trusts, Wooley & Wallis, Salisbury, 27 May 1998, lot 242.

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Lot Essay

The antique-fluted sideboard-tables, with ellipitic hollow-fronted and round columnar-corner tops, are designed in the elegant George III Roman fashion of the 1780s. Elliptic medallion libation-paterae embellish the tablets above their herm-tapered legs.
They are likely to have formed part of the furnishings commissioned for Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire by Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme, (d. 1795) following his marriage in 1782.
A George III mahogany concave-fronted apsidal side table, also from Clumber was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 13 November 1997, lot 35.

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