A GEORGE III GILTWOOD DEMI-LUNE SIDE TABLE

细节

A GEORGE III GILTWOOD DEMI-LUNE SIDE TABLE
The later siena marble veneered top with eared corners, above a fluted frieze centred by a later beaded circular medallion of a man's bust in profile, on ring-turned fluted legs headed by circular paterae and pinched necks on turned tapering feet, inscribed in chalk to the underside of the top '228', regilt, probably originally with pendant frieze decoration
66½ in. (168.5 cm.) wide; 33 in. (84 cm.) high; 25¾ in. (65.5 cm.) deep

来源

Wilsic Hall, Wadworth, Yorkshire, Henry Spencer and Sons house sale, 18-19 November 1948, lot 305.

拍品专文

The table frame, with elliptic front between tablet-eared ends, relates to that of pier-tables supplied for Harewood House, Yorkshire in 1775 by Thomas Chippendale (d.1779) (C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, figs. 488-491). Its fluted frieze, centred originally with a painted medallion of a bacchantae, 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, in these Rooms, 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.