拍品 88
88
A GEORGE IV GILTWOOD AND SPECIMEN MARBLE CIRCULAR TABLE
A GEORGE IV GILTWOOD AND SPECIMEN MARBLE CIRCULAR TABLE

CIRCA 1825, THE TOP ITALIAN

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A GEORGE IV GILTWOOD AND SPECIMEN MARBLE CIRCULAR TABLE
Circa 1825, THE TOP ITALIAN
The top inlaid with a square of marble samples centred by a rectangular pietra dura panel with a bird, above a plain frieze with beaded edge, on a stop-fluted and acanthus-clasped column and three down-curved legs with lion masks and hairy paw feet, inscribed in marker pen '13840 107'
28½ in. (72 cm.) high; 22½ in. (57 cm.) diameter

拍品专文

The table has a robust palm-and-acanthus wrapped pillar in the manner of 'Pillar and Claw Table' patterns illustrated in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808, pl. 69. The bacchic lion-monopodium of its tripod 'claw' relates to those of a chair pattern in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia, 1804, pl. 12.

Another table with closely related base and certainly from the same workshop was sold, the property of a Gentleman, Christie's, London, 4 July 2002, lot 88. Interestingly, that table also supported an Italian specimen marble top.