A MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE

19TH CENTURY

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A MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE
19th century
With an Egyptian alabaster or possibly cippolino marble top above a frieze with a rope twist carved edge on acanthus carved cabriole legs with hairy paw feet, the central stretcher bearing the number 1230, the marble top possibly 18th Century
34in. (86cm.) high, 60in. (153cm.) wide, 24in. (61cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The popularity of this extravagant marble veneer was noted by the architect Robert Adam, when commissioning slabs in Rome for John, 2nd Earl of Hopetown (d.1781)in the mid 1750's. Cf. Anthony Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, Faber, London, 1968 fig.412

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