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MOTTISFONT ABBEY The following lot was on loan to the National Trust at Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire, until February 2006. It was photographed in situ at Mottisfont in The Whistler Room. Mottisfont has had a succession of owners throughout its long history and in 1938-9 Rex Whistler was employed by Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Russell, the then owners, to transform the room. Whistler chose a Gothic fantasy of grisaille trellis patterns in the coved ceiling above ecclesiastical, military, musical and sporting trophies associated with Mottisfont and divided by painted Gothic columns. The Russells, a great-grandson of the 6th Duke of Bedford, had bought the house in 1934 and it was eventually given to the National Trust by them in 1957. Mrs Russell continued to live there until 1972. THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A MID-VICTORIAN MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE

THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A MID-VICTORIAN MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular pierced fretwork gallery above a pierced fretwork frieze, on pierced gothic open fretwork legs enclosing turned columns, on shaped feet and sunk leather castors, previously with a stretcher
13¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 32¼ in. (82 cm.) wide; 23¼ in. (59 cm.) deep

Exhibited

On loan to Mottismont Abbey, Hampshire, until February 2006.

Special notice

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