Sale 5763
London, South Kensington
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7 June 2005
Price realised
GBP 7,800
Estimate
A MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE MID 19TH CENTURY The circular tilt top with a pie-crust carved edge and birdcage support, on a turned, fluted and foliate-carved pedestal with foliate cabriole legs and claw-and-ball feet, heavily faded and with repairs to the table top 27½in. (69cm.) high, 29½in. (75cm.) diameter
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The design of this lot is closely related to a table from the collection of Percival Griffiths, illustrated, fig 206, in Herbert Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, Vol II, George Routledge & Sons, London.
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