A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-INLAID AND GILT BRASS-MOUNTED INDIAN ROSEWOOD AND BOULLE MARQUETRY CENTER TABLES

Lot 564
23.10.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 564 | A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-INLAID AND GILT BRASS-MOUNTED INDIAN ROSEWOOD AND BOULLE MARQUETRY CENTER TABLES
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A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-INLAID AND GILT BRASS-MOUNTED INDIAN ROSEWOOD AND BOULLE MARQUETRY CENTER TABLES

POSSIBLY BY LOUIS LE GAIGNEUR, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Each with a molded square brass-inlaid rosewood top in premier-partie and contre-partie, bordered with brass stringing and rosewood crossbanding, within a square with foliate spandrels, and within an outer border ornamented with foliate scrolls, the corners with wheel medallions, all within an entrelac-and-rosette collar over and egg-and-dart paneled frieze with a central drawer inlaid with boxwood banding and mounted with anthemion-garlanded nymph masks, supported on a turned columnar stepped shaft with stiff-leaf, egg-and-dart, and gadrooned socle, the square stepped plinth with further wheel-medallions, raised on winged paw feet with brass castors, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label, the plinths adapted

29 3/4 in. (75.6 cm.) high, 22 3/4 in. (57.8 cm.) wide, 22 3/4 in. (57.8 cm.) deep





Provenance

Possibly supplied to Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny (d.1843) for Eridge Castle, Sussex, in the early 19th century, or acquired by Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny (d.1954) for Eridge Place, East Sussex, around 1937.

‌Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 18 November 1993, lot 170.





Literature

C. Hussey, 'Eridge Park, Sussex – II’, Country Life, 30 September 1965, p. 819, fig. 4, illustrated in the corridor between the entrance and the garden hall.

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