OF EMPIRE STYLE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE
OF EMPIRE STYLE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
With a verde antico marble top above a panelled frieze with two drawers and rosette, anthemion and urn clasps, the drawer fronts with chariots and the corner blocks mounted with tripod stands, the square tapering supports with winged Egyptian mask capitals joined by stretchers and with lapetted bun feet
30in. (76cm.) high; 45½in. (115cm.) wide; 24in. (61cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The table, supported by sphynx monopodiae, displays festive golden bas-relief tablets in the Virgilian fashion celebrating Peace and Plenty with the triumph of agriculture as personified by the Summer deity Ceres. The deity is seated in a lion-drawn chariot bearing a torch to assist in the melting of weapons to create ploughs; while the harvest deity's cornupopia or horn-of-plenty is displayed in the companion ram-drawn chariot.

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