CIRCA 1750-60

Details

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE
CIRCA 1750-60
The octagonal segmentally veneered top with gothic-pierced gallery above a pierced triple-column shaft and downswept and pierced legs terminating in scrolled feet, repairs to the top with consequent veneering to the underside of the top
29 in. (74 cm.) high; 25 ½ in. (65 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Acquired from Partridge, London, March 1989.

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Lot Essay

With its pierced column stem terminating in scrolled feet, the form of the present tripod base relates to a design for a card table in Mayhew and Ince's Universal System of Household Furniture, 1759-1763, pl. LIII. Further designs for claw tables, kettle stands and fire screens with pierced or `open' tripod stands also featured prominently and as such, the pattern seems to have been characteristic of their oeuvre.

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