A GEORGE II GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE, the eared rectangular jasper-veneered top above an acanthus border and fluted frieze centred by a scallop-shell and hung with fruiting oak-leaf swags, on partially imbricated scrolling legs headed by an acanthus-leaf and panelled with guilloche band, on block feet, the swags, block feet and decoration later

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

细节

来源

The late Geoffrey Bennison, Esq., sold in these Rooms, 26-27 September 1985, lot 82

拍品专文

The table, with its acanthus-wrapped and fluted frame centred by a scallop-shell badge, and its acanthus-wrapped and voluted 'truss' consoles embellished with imbrication and ribbon-guilloche is partly inspired by 'pier table' patterns issued by William Jones in his Gentleman or Builder's Companion, 1739. These elements, together with the oak garlands, appear on pier-tables designed about 1730 by the architect William Kent (d.1748) for Houghton Hall, Norfolk (see: R. Edwards, Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p. 584, fig. 25.)
A pier-table, sold by Lady Rupert Nevill in these Rooms, 6 November 1986, also shared many of the features.