OF GEORGE II STYLE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY, ORIGINALLY CARVED AS A SINGLE FREE-STANDING PEDESTAL

This pair of tables, originally conceived as one center table, follows William Kent's (d. 1748) design for a table for the 3rd Earl of Burlington's villa, Chiswick House, London. The design published in John Vardy's Some Designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. William Kent, 1744 (see P. Ward-Jackson, English Furniture Designs of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1958, p. 15, fig. 15). One of the Chiswick tables is illustrated in O. Brackett, 'Notable Collections: The Decoration and Furniture of Devonshire House - Part II', The Connoisseur, April 1920, p. 212.