A VICTORIAN ELECTROPLATE 'RENAISSANCE REVIVAL' CENTRE TABLE ...

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12.11.2020 14:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 281 | A VICTORIAN ELECTROPLATE 'RENAISSANCE REVIVAL' CENTRE TABLE ...
A VICTORIAN ELECTROPLATE 'RENAISSANCE REVIVAL' CENTRE TABLE

BY ELKINGTON & CO., BIRMINGHAM, THE DESIGN BY LEONARD MOREL-LADEUIL, CIRCA 1870

The table top centred by a female figure holding poppies and emblematic of sleep encircled by a continuous frieze of Classical figures and putti amongst billowing clouds in low relief and a convex outer band decorated with grotesques and arabesques, the rim mounted with alternating snakes and demon heads, signed 'Elkington C/ Tece [?]r' and 'Morel Ladeuil/ invet et sculp. 1862', on a baluster support decorated with flowers above a circular base mounted with three seated Renaissiance courtiers in contemplation and on three scroll feet each centred by a Tudor rose, the base signed 'ELKINGTON & CO.', dated 'Y', and numbered '1320'

41 ¼ in. (104.5 cm.) high; 28 ¼ in. (72 cm.) diameter

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