A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILT-BRASS MOUNTED KINGWOOD-CROSSBANDED WALNUT, TULIPWOOD AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY AND GILTWOOD PIER TABLES

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Los 10 | A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILT-BRASS MOUNTED KINGWOOD-CROSSBANDED WALNUT, TULIPWOOD AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY AND GILTWOOD PIER TABLES
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILT-BRASS MOUNTED KINGWOOD-CROSSBANDED WALNUT, TULIPWOOD AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY AND GILTWOOD PIER TABLES

ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM INCE AND JOHN MAYHEW, CIRCA 1770

Each serpentine top inlaid with an urn of Summer flowers within acanthus scrolled borders and with a gadrooned edge, above a fluted frieze between moulded ribbon-tied foliate borders, centred by a ram's head flanked by scrolls and circular paterae suspending husk swags, the scrolls continuing to scroll-headed and foliate-carved cabriole legs and inscrolled toes, one with a paper label inscribed 'Park(?)… / Drawing Room', re-gilt

34 1/4 in. (87 cm.) high; 55 1/2 in. (141 cm.) wide; 25 1/8 in. (64 cm.) deep





Provenance

Probably supplied to Francis Thomas Fitzmaurice, 3rd Earl of Kerry (1740–1818) for Prior Park, near Bath, circa 1768-71, as 'Two very Rich Inlaid tops to pier Tables with Rich wrought Brass Mouldings Gilt (£32)'.

Almost certainly sold, Prior Park house sale, Bennett and Fenton, 20 July 1772, either lots 15-16 or 95-96.

Lord Swansea, Caer Beris, Brecon (according to the Connoisseur advertisement).

Lady Stern, Barham Court, Kent; Sotheby's, London, 17 March 1967, lot 155.

R.L. Harrington Ltd.

Mallett & Son (Antiques) Ltd.



Literature

Connoisseur, June 1972 (advertisement).

Charles Cator, ‘The Earl of Kerry and Mayhew and Ince’, Furniture History, XXVI (1990), pp. 27-33.

H. Roberts and C. Cator, Industry and Ingenuity - The Partnership of William Ince and John Mayhew, London, 2022, p. 87, footnote 4.



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