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AN ITALIAN GILTWOOD LOW TABLE
The later glazed rectangular top with an etching of Hercules, Minerva and Venus with a later border, on a blue ground, above a Greek-key frieze, on square tapering fluted legs headed by patera with chandelles, on foliage-clasped feet, inscribed in blue chalk '9099 97' and with remains of printed paper label 'EM...rue de la Terrasse...' inscribed in pencil '97', regilt
19 in. (50 cm.) high; 24 in. (63 cm.) wide; 17 in. (44 cm.) deep
The later glazed rectangular top with an etching of Hercules, Minerva and Venus with a later border, on a blue ground, above a Greek-key frieze, on square tapering fluted legs headed by patera with chandelles, on foliage-clasped feet, inscribed in blue chalk '9099 97' and with remains of printed paper label 'EM...rue de la Terrasse...' inscribed in pencil '97', regilt
19 in. (50 cm.) high; 24 in. (63 cm.) wide; 17 in. (44 cm.) deep
Sale room notice
The print of 'Hercules between Virtue and Vice' derives from a painting commissioned from Paola de Matteis in 1712 by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury and sold by the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, in these Rooms, 27 June 1980, lot 149. The Earl was the author of A Notion of the Historical Draught of Hercules, 1713, and his painting was intended to awaken British taste for Italian art. It was engraved in 1713 by Simon Gribelin and served as the frontispiece to Shaftesbury's The Judgement of Hercules in Charackteristics, 1737, vol. III, p. 347.