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A CHINESE-EXPORT MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND BRASS-INLAID PADOUK TRIPOD TABLE
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A CHINESE-EXPORT MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND BRASS-INLAID PADOUK TRIPOD TABLE

MID-18TH CENTURY

細節
A CHINESE-EXPORT MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND BRASS-INLAID PADOUK TRIPOD TABLE
MID-18TH CENTURY
The circular lobed tilt-top with ten circular small compartments around a cinquefoil compartment enclosed by foliate sprays, above a birdcage mechanism and gun-barrel shaft, on cabriole legs with pad feet
27¼ in. (69 cm.) high; 22¾ in. (58 cm.) diameter
來源
By family tradition, acquired in Germany in the mid-19th century, and by descent.
注意事項
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拍品專文

The china-table with shell-scalloped tray on Roman tripod pillar and 'claw' relates to a 1730s pattern in Thomas Potter's trade-sheet; while its French-fashioned 'shell' flowered wreath of golden 'boulle' brass inlay corresponds to the contemporary 'Choice Tea-Boards' advertised as being 'inlaid with fine Figures of Brass and Mother of Pearl' by the Moravian cabinet-maker Johann Friedrich Hintz (d. 1776) of Newport Street (G. Beard and C. Gilbert (eds.), The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 434). A similarly inlaid tray hollowed with cinquefoil-flowered compartment for tea-pot encircled by ten roundels for saucers and cups was formerly owned by Earl of Wemyss, Elcho Castle, Perth and latterly sold by Mr. Walter P. Chrysler, Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 7 May 1960, lot 504.

Another inlaid table with lobed top and fluted column, but shoe-carved feet, in mahogany was sold by Mr & Mrs Saul P. Steinberg, Sotheby's New York, 26 May 2000, lot 196 ($280,750).