拍品专文
The table, intended as a window-pier companion for a candelabra-reflecting mirror, is designed in the Roman fashion popularized by George III's Rome-trained court architect Robert Adam; and serves to evoke the Mount Parnassus poetic triumph of the light-deity Apollo. Grecian palms crown its elliptic and Etruscan pearl-wreathed frieze and ribbon-tied bas-relief tablet, which is labeled by a sacred urn guarded by the deitys chimerical griffin as featured in The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam (2nd ed., 1779). Its golden satinwood top is inlaid with an altar issuing from poetic laurel-festooned scrolls of Roman acanthus in the fashion popularized by fashionable cabinet-makers such as Messrs. Mayhew and Ince.