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Lord and Lady Rupert Nevill's Wedding Present A George I giltwood and gilt-gesso side table

CIRCA 1715

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Lord and Lady Rupert Nevill's Wedding Present
A George I giltwood and gilt-gesso side table
Circa 1715
The later verde-antico marble top above a foliate decorated frieze with a central scallop-shell, on acanthus decorated cabriole legs and pad feet, with the remains of a printed paper label 'The London & Stansted Furnish...', some losses and restoration to the gilt-gesso, originally with a gilt-gesso top, with a later paper property label for Princess Margaret
28½ in. (72 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53 cm.) deep

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Given on the occasion of the marriage of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930-2002) to Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon (b.1930) on 6 May 1960, by Lord and Lady Rupert Nevill, Uckfield House, Sussex.

Placed in the Drawing Room of the Private Apartment of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon at Kensington Palace.

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Lord Rupert Nevill, J.P. D.L., was Private Secretary to H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh from 1976 to 1982.

The table is designed in the George I 'Roman' fashion with a 'Venus' shell displayed on its lambrequined and palm-wrapped frieze. It is likely to have originally had a gessoed top and accompanied a mirror to comprise a bedroom apartment pier-set such as that supplied by the St. Paul's Churchyard cabinet-maker John Belchier (d.1753) in 1723 for Erddig, Wales (R. Edwards and M. Jourdain, Georgian Cabinet-Makers, London, rev. ed., 1955, p.137, fig 31; and The National Trust, Erddig, London, 1999, pp.48-50). A related golden topped table, with shell-enriched lambrequin, is likely to have formed part of the furnishings introduced by Harbord Copley (d. 1742) at Gunton Park, Norfolk following his inheritance of the estate in 1710 (sold Irelands, Gunton Park sale 16-26 September 1980, Lot 1958). The table was presented by Lord and Lady Rupert Nevill. Princess Margaret had been a regular visitor to their Sussex home at Uckfield House, the furnishing of which was admired by the architectural historian Christopher Hussey in 1966 for its 'country-house taste' (C. Hussey, Uckfield House, Sussex, Country Life, 14 July 1966 , pp.80-83).