IN THE MANNER OF ROBERT ADAM OR FRANÇOIS HERVE, 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III STYLE WHITE-PAINTED PIER TABLES
IN THE MANNER OF ROBERT ADAM OR FRANÇOIS HERVE, 20TH CENTURY
Each with a grey fossil veneered marble top above a fluted frieze centred by a carved panel of a lion, on square tapering fluted legs headed by rams masks and medallions, on block feet
33½ in. (85 cm.) high; 79¼ in. (201 cm.) wide; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) deep (2)

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拍品專文

The tables reflect the Roman or neo-classical style of decorating promoted in the 1770s by the court architects, Robert Adam and Sir William Chambers. In particular this fashion was adopted by the Tottenham Court Road 'cabriolet chair-frame maker' John Meschain, together with his partner François Hervé, who superceded him in the 1780s. A distinctive feature of Hervé's style is the dropped tablet in the frieze, seen on a canapé á confidants attributed to Hervé and sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 15 September 2005, lot 34 (see also I. Hall, 'A Neoclassical episode at Chatsworth', Burlington Magazine, June 1980, pp. 402-414 & fig. 39).

The closest pattern for the tables is Robert Adam's design for a Dining-Room Sideboard and Pedestals for Kenwood House which featured in Robert and James Adam's Works in Architecture, 1774, plate VIII [=8] from vol. I, no. II. The sideboard table at Kenwood features a pelta-scroll in the centre of the frieze rather than the dropped central frieze tablet of the present tables.