CIRCA 1780

細節

A GEORGE III GILTWOOD DEMI-LUNE PIER TABLE
CIRCA 1780
With later verde antico marble top above a frieze with alternating foliate roundels and acanthus clasps, on spirally-fluted legs headed by oval roundels and foliage clasps, on turned feet, re-gilt
37¾ in. (96 cm.) high; 72 in. (183 cm.) wide; 31 in. (79 cm.) deep

來源

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 May 1995, lot 101.

拍品專文

The elliptic pier table is designed in the George III Roman fashion introduced by the architect Robert Adam (d.1792). The pattern of its flowered Roman-acanthus frieze relates to that of seats designed by him in the 1760s for Osterley Park, Middlesex; and to that of his tripod torcheres designed in the 1770s for the 3rd Earl of Bute (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, 1982, p.16, cat no. B1; and R. & J. Adam, Works in Architecture, vol. III, 1822, pl. XI).
Likewise the table's palm-wrapped and spiral-fluted columnar legs appeared on another of Adam's torcheres (ibid, vol. I, No. 1, 1773, pl.VIII). The same frieze, but with Apollo sunflowers. was adopted for elliptic tables now at Dunsany Castle, Co. Meath, Ireland (D. Guinness and W. Ryan, Irish Houses and Castles, 1972, p. 256)