LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND WHITE-PAINTED PIER GLASS AND CONSOLE TABLE
LATE 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular divided plate in a beaded border, surrounded by smaller plates, the demi-lune pier table with later white marble top, the frieze with bow and swag decoration, on fluted tapering legs, redecorated, replacements to the plates
The pier-glass - 106 x 50 3/8 in. (269 x 128 cm.)

Provenance

The Legend of Dick Turpin, Part I, Christie's, King Street, 9 March 2006, lot 183.

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Lot Essay

The elliptic pier-table is wreathed with a ribboned veil festoon in the 1770s antique, or Roman, fashion popularised by architects such as Robert Adam (d. 1792) and James Wyatt (d. 1813). Its columnar legs are wreathed in laurels, en suite with the pier-glass. A late 18th century table at Osterley Park, Middlesex, is similarly festooned and decorated in white and gold in the French fashion (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, T/9). The lowering of a pier-glass to be incorporated as part of the table occurred with the pier-table of the Piccadilly Room at Apsley House, London, in the late 19th century (J. Voack, Apsley House, London, 1998, p. 40).

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