A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD PIER TABLES

Lot 449
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ID 820057
Lot 449 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD PIER TABLES
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$ 120 000 – 180 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD PIER TABLES

ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY FLITCROFT, CIRCA 1740

Each later rectangular Portor marble top above an egg-and-dart border and fluted frieze centered with a male mask wearing a plumed headdress and issuing cornucopia with floral and fruiting garlands and supported by eagle’s head monopodia draped with further garlands and joined by a scrolled stretcher centered with a shell, later faux porphyry plinth with an egg-and-dart border, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label, minor variations in dimensions

34 1/2 in. (87.5 cm.) high, 51 1/2 in. (131 cm.) wide, 24 1/2 in. (62 cm.) deep

the other 33 1/8 in. (84.2 cm.) high, 52 1/4 in. (132.8 cm.) wide, 24 7/8 (63.2 cm.) deep





Provenance

Possibly commissioned by Sir Hugh Smithson (1715-1786), 4th Bart., later 1st Duke of Northumberland for either Stanwick Hall or Northumberland House.

With Mallett, London.

Eric Moller, Thorncombe Park, Surrey; Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1993, lot 62.

Acquired from the above by Ann and Gordon Getty.





Literature

P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture, The Age of Mahogany, London, 1919, fig. 21.

P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1924-1927, vol. III, p. 262, fig. 27.

A. Oswald, 'Albury Park, Surrey, The Home of Helen, Duchess of Northumberland,' Country Life, 1 September 1950, p. 677, fig. 10 (one of the tables now at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland).

O. Brackett, English Furniture Illustrated, revised edition, London,1950, p. 155.

R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 2nd ed., vol. III, London, 1954, p. 286, fig 37.

R.W. Symonds, Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England, London, 1955, p. 162, pls. 213-215.

C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, vol. II, London, 1978, p. 356.

A. Aymonino, Enlightened Eclecticism: The Grand Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, London, 2021, p. 270.



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