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Lot Essay
The table has a robust palm-and-acanthus wrapped pillar in the manner of 'Pillar and Claw Table' patterns illustrated in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808, pl. 69. The bacchic lion-monopodium of its tripod 'claw' relates to those of a chair pattern in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia, 1804, pl. 12.
Another table with closely related base and certainly from the same workshop was sold, the property of a Gentleman, Christie's, London, 4 July 2002, lot 88. Interestingly, that table also supported an Italian specimen marble top.
Another table with closely related base and certainly from the same workshop was sold, the property of a Gentleman, Christie's, London, 4 July 2002, lot 88. Interestingly, that table also supported an Italian specimen marble top.