AN EARLY VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL BURR-WALNUT, SYCAMORE, HOLLY, BOXWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY OCTAGONAL CENTRE TABLE

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Los 121 | AN EARLY VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL BURR-WALNUT, SYCAMORE, HOLLY, BOXWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY OCTAGONAL CENTRE TABLE
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL BURR-WALNUT, SYCAMORE, HOLLY, BOXWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY OCTAGONAL CENTRE TABLE

BY CRACE & CO., CIRCA 1855, AFTER THE DESIGNS OF A.W.N. PUGIN

The crossbanded and line-inlaid top with foliate marquetry border on canted legs and shaped supports with foliate brackets joined by chamfered peripheral stretchers and a central x-shaped stretcher, the rosette-carved shaped feet on recessed brass 'patent' castors

29 1/4 in. (74.5 cm.) high; 63 1/4 in. (160.5 cm.) diameter





Provenance

The Knyfton family, Uphill Manor, Weston-Super-Mare, from the Drawing Room built in 1855, commissioned as a wedding present by Thomas Tutton Knyfton for his second wife, Georgina Colston, and by descent.

The Estate of Miss Edith Marjorie Graves-Knyfton, Uphill Manor, Weston-super-Mare; Greenslade Hunt Fine Art Auctioneers house sale, 10-11 December 1992, lot 758.

Acquired from Jonathan Harris, London.



Literature

M. Aldrich, ‘Marquetry in the Medieval Court: The Octagonal Tables of Pugin and Crace’, The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, 2001, pp. 55-56 & 58.

D. Breuer et. al., Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters, London, 2003, pp. 237, 309, cat. no. 183.



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

A. Wedgwood, A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin Family: Catalogues of the Architectural Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1985, p. 262, cat. nos. 779-81.

J. Cooper, Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors: From the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau, London, 1987, p. 91, fig. 90.

A. Wedgwood, ‘J.G. Crace and A.W.N. Pugin’, ed. M. Aldrich, The Craces: Royal Decorators 1768-1899, Brighton, 1990, pp. 137-145.

C. Wainwright, ‘Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire-II: The Seat of Mr. James Hervey-Bathurst’, Country Life, 20 May 1993, pp. 90-93.

J. Musson, ‘Knebworth House, Hertfordshire: The Home of the Hon. Henry and Mrs. Lytton Cobbold’, Country Life, 24 April 2003, pp. 104-107.

B. Coleman, The Best of British Arts & Crafts, Atglen, PA, 2004, p. 87.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters, 2003, no. 183.



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