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A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD OCTAGONAL CENTRE TABLE

CIRCA 1830

Details
A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD OCTAGONAL CENTRE TABLE
CIRCA 1830
The later octagonal top with inset variegated rouge marble, on a naturalistically-carved trunk, with a bird in a nest and a parrot with a dog and a putti beneath
20 in. (51 cm.) wide, 30 in. (77.5 cm.) high, 20 in. (51 cm.) deep
Provenance
The late Sir Philip Shelbourne, Myles Place, Salisbury, Wiltshire, sold Christie's house sale 25-26 October 1993, lot 101.
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Lot Essay

This table, with its sporting figure hunting a bird, is designed in the Louis XV picturesque style popularised by Thomas Johnson of Soho (d. 1778) and revived in the mid-19th Century. It relates to a pattern illustrated by G.W. Yapp in Art Industry Furniture etc., 1879 (E.T. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 556).

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