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拍品专文
George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808 (pl. 82), illustrated a circular 'Dejuné' table with 'porphyry' top, which he described as being suitable to 'Morning Breakfast Rooms'. A Florentine table top of this mosaic pattern, also called a 'Dejeune' table, was executed in 1817, and sold in 1826 by the Rome based dealer François de Sanctis to the Reverend R. W. Bland (d. 1880) of Belfast. The latter was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 29 January 1994, lot 305. Another of these table tops has an altar-tripod and brass-inlaid pedestal that has been attributed to George Bullock (d. 1818) of Tenterden Street (C. Wainwright et al, George Bullock: Cabinet-maker, London, 1988, no. 50). Another, supported on a rosewood frame related to a Gillow pattern of 1824 is illustrated in C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House, London, 1978, vol II, no. 396. Amongst a number of similar table tops was one reputed to have been in the collections of the Earls of Rosebery at Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 20 November 1992, lot 148.
Another table with almost identical varie-marbled top with central roundel of lapis lazuli, will be offered by the late Lady Serena James and the Countess of Scarbrough's Will Trust, from St Nicholas, Richmond, North Yorkshire, at Christie's South Kensington, 16 May, lot 260.
The construction of this table indicates that it is of European, not Indian production.
Another table with almost identical varie-marbled top with central roundel of lapis lazuli, will be offered by the late Lady Serena James and the Countess of Scarbrough's Will Trust, from St Nicholas, Richmond, North Yorkshire, at Christie's South Kensington, 16 May, lot 260.
The construction of this table indicates that it is of European, not Indian production.