MID-18TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF MATTHIAS LOCK

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
MID-18TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF MATTHIAS LOCK
The later top inset with green marble fragments within slate and green and white-veined marble borders above a pierced-scroll and acanthus-carved flower garlanded frieze centred by a ram’s mask, on hairy lion’s legs wrapped with serpents and paw feet, with conforming sides and ram’s mask corners, inscribed twice ‘46979’ and ‘7974’, re-gilt and re-gessoed
32 ½ in. (82.5 cm.) high; 68 in. (173 cm.) wide; 30 ¼ in. (76.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A table with related hairy lion's legs and paw feet is at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire (P. Macquoid & R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed. 1954, vol. III, p. 123, fig. 4). A harlequin pair of related tables with lion's legs and paw feet, with leg veins carved into the gesso, are in the collection of Earl Spencer in the Wootton Hall at Althorp, Northamptonshire. It is possible that the serpents seen curling up the legs of the present table were originally also intended to be veins, but that their nature was altered when the table was re-gessoed and re-gilt.

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