拍品 89
89
AN ENGLISH EBONISED, CALAMANDER, BOXWOOD AND WALNUT MARQUETRY INLAID CENTRE TABLE, the rectangular top with a moulded edge centred by a calamander-inlaid panel and outlined with a border of marquetry-inlaid strapwork, scrolls and flowerheads, intersected by roundels with flowerheads, on four turned tapering legs, inlaid with walnut flutes above foliate inlay, the baluster base inlaid with swags above gadrooning, the shaped pier stand inlaid stretcher with central column on turned tapering feet, second half 19th Century

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AN ENGLISH EBONISED, CALAMANDER, BOXWOOD AND WALNUT MARQUETRY INLAID CENTRE TABLE, the rectangular top with a moulded edge centred by a calamander-inlaid panel and outlined with a border of marquetry-inlaid strapwork, scrolls and flowerheads, intersected by roundels with flowerheads, on four turned tapering legs, inlaid with walnut flutes above foliate inlay, the baluster base inlaid with swags above gadrooning, the shaped pier stand inlaid stretcher with central column on turned tapering feet, second half 19th Century
54¼in. (138cm.); wide 29in. (74cm.) high; 32¼in. (82cm.) deep

拍品专文

This fine centre table exhibits workmanship of exceptional quality, typical of show pieces dating from the 1850s and 1860s. The motifs employed in the polychrome parquetry inlay are reminiscent, if not identical to decoration found in Owen Jones' Grammar of Ornament, first published in 1856.