MID-18TH CENTURY

Details

A GEORGE II GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE TABLE
MID-18TH CENTURY
The rectangular white grey-veined marble top above a pierced frieze intricately carved with foliate scrolls, serpents and centred by a grotesque mask, supported by an heraldic device of a griffin holding a wreath and fighting a snake, on rockwork base, redecorated
33 ¾ in. (85.5 cm.) high; 75 ¼ in. (191 cm.) wide; 29 ½ in. (75 cm.) deep

Provenance

Almost certainly the Duke family, Otterton, Devon and by descent to the Yonge Family, Puslinch House, Devon.
With Mr J.B.Yonge at Puslinch, Devon, 1933.
By descent at Puslinch until circa 2009.
Acquired from Edward Hurst, April 2009.

Literature

'Puslinch: The Seat of Mr J.B.Yonge', Country Life, vol. 74, 18 November 1933, p. 524-529, illustrated in-situ in the Dining Room.

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Lot Essay

This table, with its heraldic device of a demi-griffin holding a wreath, together with the provenance at Puslinch, almost certainly relates to the crest of the Duke family of Otterton, Devon. Elizabeth Duke, daughter and co-heiress of George Duke of The Old Hall, Colaton Raleigh married the Rev. John Yonge of Puslinch in 1746. Probably made by a local craftsman, the table was illustrated in the Dining Room in 1933. The lack of oxidisation to the back-rail and the specific redecoration suggest the table was not moved often during its time at Puslinch; in 1933 it was in the Dining-Room but had been moved by 2007 to another principal room.

The inventory of Puslinch produced in 1795 or 1798, probably following the death of Rev. James Yonge mentions ‘a marble sideboard' in the ‘Best Dining Parlour’ but also various ‘deal tables’ in the principal rooms, which may relate to the present lot (see Inventory of the Contents of Puslinch, circa 1796-97, Plymouth Archives 1274/1).

Puslinch House in Devon was built in the Queen Anne style for James Yonge circa 1720 it was described by architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as 'a perfect example of a medium-sized early-Georgian country house in the Queen Anne tradition'.

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