A PAIR OF GEORGE I GILT-GESSO AND JAPANESE LACQUER SIDE TABLES

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Los 108 | A PAIR OF GEORGE I GILT-GESSO AND JAPANESE LACQUER SIDE TABLES
A PAIR OF GEORGE I GILT-GESSO AND JAPANESE LACQUER SIDE TABLES

CIRCA 1720

Each with a rectangular black, red and gilt top decorated with pagodas in landscapes, above a cushion-moulded frieze, carved with foliage and scrolling acanthus leaves, on cabriole legs headed by female masks, losses and restorations, previously but not originally silvered and now stripped back to the original gilding

31 3/4 in. (81 cm.) high; 39 1/4 in. (100 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep





Provenance

Probably commissioned by Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart (1708-1770).

By descent to Major Sir Cecil Lyonel Tollemache.

Almost certainly the 'Pair of gesso tables' sold to Ronald Lee Ltd. from Ham House.

Acquired from Frank Partridge, London circa 1953.

Moved by Sir Anthony and Lady Eden (later Earl and Countess of Avon) to the Green Drawing Room, 10 Downing Street between 1955-7, before being moved to Fyfield Manor, Wiltshire.



Literature

John Dawson, Kingston on Thames, An Inventory of The furniture, Plate, Linen, China, Books, pictures, prints and farming Implements at Ham House in Surrey; made in duplicate this 13th day of June 1844 – by me’, p. 56, ‘Dining Room’, ‘Two India japanned pier tables, on carved and gilt frames’. Reproduced in ed. C. Rowell, Ham House: 400 Years of Collecting and Patronage, New Haven and London, 2013, Appendix 5, ‘The 1844 Inventory’, p. 474.

A catalogue and valuation of the furniture, plate, books, pictures and engravings at Ham House compiled by Walter C Joel, licensed valuer, Richmond, October 1911, p. 110, ‘Dining Room’, ‘2 Carved & Gilt Pier Tables. 3ft3, with Lacquer Tops’, Surrey History Centre, 4468/2.

A catalogue and valuation of the art treasures and books at Ham House...the property of the trustees made for the purposes of insurance by Sotheby and Co, 34-35 New Bond Street, London, December 1930, p. 12, ‘Dining Room’, ‘A pair of Queen Anne gilt gesso Side Tables with black and gold lacquer tops, on cabriole legs designed with masks, and pointed feet 400-0-0’, Surrey History Centre, 4468/3.

M. Jourdain, 'Furniture at Ham House', Country Life, 6 December 1930, p. 756, fig. 5 (one illustrated in the Marble Parlour).

C. Hussey, 'Fyfield Manor, Wiltshire - III, the Home of the Earl and Countess of Avon', Country Life, 5 October 1961, p. 751 and 752 (illustrated in the Drawing Room).



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