拍品 240
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The Property of a Deceased Estate
A GEORGE III KINGWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY DRESSING-TABLE, the double-hinged serpentine cartouche-shaped eared top centred by a florally-inlaid circle within a broad flowerhead border, enclosing a mahogany-lined fitted interior of four wells and a drawer, the frieze inlaid with anthemia and scrolls above three small drawers inlaid with delicate foliate scrolls and swags, the sides with cartouches inlaid with stylised strapwork, on tapering cabriole legs and foliate sabots, repair to top of one front leg, formerly with interior mirror

细节
A GEORGE III KINGWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY DRESSING-TABLE, the double-hinged serpentine cartouche-shaped eared top centred by a florally-inlaid circle within a broad flowerhead border, enclosing a mahogany-lined fitted interior of four wells and a drawer, the frieze inlaid with anthemia and scrolls above three small drawers inlaid with delicate foliate scrolls and swags, the sides with cartouches inlaid with stylised strapwork, on tapering cabriole legs and foliate sabots, repair to top of one front leg, formerly with interior mirror
24½in. (62cm.) wide; 29in.(74cm.) high; 18¾in. (48cm.) deep
展览
Bath, The Octagon, Art Treasures Exhibition, 29 May - 7 June 1958, no. 324

拍品专文

The table's serpentined form and ormolu feet correspond to inlaid tables executed in the French manner by Pierre Langlois (d.1765) who established his Tottenham Court Road workshops in the late 1750s. Its Grecian palmette frieze derives from J. Stuart and N. Revett, Antiquities of Athens, 1762, vol. I, pl. VIII, and this also appears in closely related form on a lady's writing-table thought to have been supplied, in the 1770s, to Barn Elms, Surrey, by John Linnell (see: H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London, 1980, vol. II, p.163, fig. 312).
Another table of this exact model was advertised by Norman Adams Ltd. in Country Life, 10 March 1994, p. 55