Sale 7776
London, South Kensington
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15 September 1998
Price realised
GBP 56,500
Estimate
A pair of Irish George II mahogany side tables Each top with a double moulded edge and undulating frieze with flowerheads, scrolls with acanthus and centred by a scallop-shell, on scallop-shell and foliate-carved slender cabriole legs terminating in stylised foliate-carved trifid feet with scrolls 35½in. (90cm.) wide, 29in. (73.5cm.) high, 20½in. (52cm.) deep (2)
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Saleroom Notice
Both these tables are 18th Century However, they display differences in carving detail and construction and may not necessarily have been made at the same time.
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