CIRCA 1770

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE
CIRCA 1770
The later demilune Siena marble top above a fluted frieze centered by a portrait roundel, the top of the table labeled in white chalk CLAYTON, the underside of the marble top with white chalk 228
33¼ in. (84.5 cm.) high, 68 in. (172.5 cm.) wide, 25¼ in. (64 cm.) deep

Provenance

Wilsic Hall, Wadworth, Yorkshire; Henry Spencer and Sons, House Sale, 18-19 November 1948, lot 305.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 February 1998, lot 389.

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Lot Essay

The table frame, with elliptic front between tablet-eared ends, compares to Chippendale's pier-tables supplied for Harewood House, Yorkshire in 1775 (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, figs. 488-491). Its fluted frieze relates to those of sideboard-tables designed in the 1770s by the architect James Wyatt (d.1815) for Sir Charles Sedley (d.1778) at Nuthall Temple, Nottinghamshire (sold by Mrs. Charles Burrell, Christie's London, 3 July 1997, lot 96).

The history of Wilsic Hall, Yorkshire, and its most celebrated occupant Thomas Tofield (d.1779), botanist and civil engineer, is given in P. Skidmore, M. Dolby and M. Hooper, Thomas Tofield of Wilsic, Gainsborough.

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