A GEORGE II OIL-GILT SIDE TABLE

Lot 331
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ID 820026
Lot 331 | A GEORGE II OIL-GILT SIDE TABLE
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
A GEORGE II OIL-GILT SIDE TABLE

PROBABLY DESIGNED BY HENRY FLITCROFT AND ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHIAS LOCK, CIRCA 1740

The rectangular portor marble top above a paneled frieze with Vitruvian scrolls on a punched ground, centered by a pendant elephant's mask flanked by swags of drapery filled with fruit and foliage, on S-scrolled paneled supports carved with acanthus leaves and pendant bellflowers, on a later custom made plinth, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

31 1/4 in. (79 cm.) high, 74 3/4 in. (90 cm.) wide, 31 3/4 in. (81 cm.) deep





Provenance

Possibly supplied to the 2nd or 3rd Duke of Manchester for Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire.

Alice, Countess of Derby, Coworth Park, Sunningdale, Berkshire; Christie's House Sale, 14-15 October 1957, lot 127.

The Collection of Lady d'Avigdor-Goldsmid; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1998, lot 11.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.





Literature

C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, 2 vols., 1978, vol. II, pp. 353-356, no. 446

P. Thornton, 'Soane's Kent Tables', Furniture History Society, vol. XXIX, 1993, pp. 56-65.

The Treasure Houses of Britain, exh. cat., Washington, 1985, p. 234, no. 155.



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