A PAIR OF GEORGE II OAK SIDE TABLES
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A PAIR OF GEORGE II OAK SIDE TABLES

Details
A PAIR OF GEORGE II OAK SIDE TABLES
Each with a moulded rectangular grey-veined marble top above a concave-moulded frieze on all four sides, on club legs headed by lappets and pad feet, lacking nine ears
31 in. (79 cm.) high; 60¼ in. (153 cm.) wide; 30¼ in. (77 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 4th Bt. (1676-1758) or Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Bt. (1726-1804), later 1st Baron Scarsdale for Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire and by descent at Kedleston.
Literature
Inventory of the Household Goods and Furniture in Kedleston House belonging to the Rt. Hon. Nath. Lord Scarsdale decd., December 1804, Kedleston Archives, listed in the Steward's Room
Special notice
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Lot Essay

This pair of oak sideboard-tables, conceived in the George II 'Roman' fashion with marble slabs, may have been commissioned for Kedleston's basement or 'Caesar's Hall' by Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Bt. and later 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) in the 1750s. Their form of leaf-wrapped columnar legs terminating in 'round toes' had been introduced in the early 18th Century, but the pattern continued to be manufactured into the 1760s (see L. Boynton (ed.), Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, fig. 3).
These tables are almost certainly the pair of oak tables listed in 1804 in the Steward's Room (Inventory of the Household Goods and Furniture in Kedleston House belonging to the Rt. Hon. Nath. Lord Scarsdale decd., December 1804, Kedleston Archives).

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