A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE

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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE
The semi-circular later Breccia marble top above a panelled beaded frieze painted with green and white ribbon-tied husk-trails flanked by patera panels above dentils and foliate rings on fluted tapering legs filled with chandelles and joined by an X-shaped stretcher centred by a patera with fruit-finial terminating in rounded feet, the marble with paper label inscribed in pencil 'F 11693 table' and inscribed to the back 'F 11693' and in chalk to the underside '21/9' and 'M.Harris', the marble with repaired break, previously with a wooden top and reduced in height
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 47¼ in. (120 cm.) wide; 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) deep

拍场告示

This German ormolu-mounted mahogany side table is late 18th Century.

拍品专文

This bold and elegant side table relates to works produced in Northern Germany in the late 1780s and early 1790s, such as a side table in the Neues Palais, Potsdam, which was designed by Karl Gotthard Langhans in 1793 (G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1973, vol. III, fig. 43) and which has similar bold mounts and robust fluted supports. A related treatment of both legs and the mounts also appears on a table sold anonymously at Sotheby's London, 9 December 1988, lot 166, as well as on a commode in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin-Köpenick, (Himmelheber, op. cit., fig. 38), both of which are attributed to Johann Gottlob Fiedler.