• 500 Years: Decorative Arts Eur auction at Christies

    Sale 2360

    500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets

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    23 November 2010

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    • AN EARLY VICTORIAN BURR-WALNUT
    Lot 58

    AN EARLY VICTORIAN BURR-WALNUT, CALAMANDER, EBONY AND MARQUETRY CENTER TABLE

    THE TOP, CIRCA 1850, THE BASE LATER

    Price realised

    USD 6,000

    Estimate

    USD 6,000 - USD 9,000

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    AN EARLY VICTORIAN BURR-WALNUT, CALAMANDER, EBONY AND MARQUETRY CENTER TABLE
    THE TOP, CIRCA 1850, THE BASE LATER
    The circular top with a central medallion surrounded by a border of fruit filled strapwork cartouches and a further ebony ground with lush strapwork and foliate border and a gadrooned edge raised on a paneled columnar support and tripartite base with paw feet, top with restorations and a later molded edge
    30 in. (76.2 cm.) high, 52½ in. (133.4 cm.) diameter

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    Lot Essay

    The pattern for this table is based upon designs by the architect Richard Hicks Bridgens and featured in his Furniture with candelabra and Interior Decoration, 1st ed., 1825 and 1838. The lush floral marquetry inlay is executed in the Dutch fashion first adopted in the 1820's by the Tottenham Court Road 'Cabinet inlayer and Buhl manufacturer' Robert Blake.

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    PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN COLLECTION (LOTS 53-59)

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