A MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE

PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

Details

A MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE
PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
With shaped lobed top with gadrooned carved edge intersperced with shells, on a fluted and acanthus-clasped column and cabriole legs, each carved with a leaf, on paw feet
27½ in. (70 cm.) high; 22¾ in.(58 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1990, lot 67.
Lord and Lady White of Hull; Christie's, New York, 30 April 1997, lot 222.

Lot Essay

This tripod table, with Bacchic lion-footed 'claw' and tray-top 'tea-board', is designed in the George II 'Roman' fashion with shell-scallops evoking Venus, the water-borne nature deity, while shells are also sculpted in the octagon-compartment cusps of its reed-gadrooned border.

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