Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 3rd October 2024
Lot 654
A GEORGE II GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000
Inc. Buyers Premium
Description
A GEORGE II GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
C.1755-60
in the French manner, the pink mottled marble top with a moulded rim, on a serpentine base, the pierced frieze with a central anthemion flanked by scrolling foliage, latticework corners and scrolling foliate sides, on 'C' scroll legs joined by a large, pierced Rococo and 'C' scroll floral motif
93.5cm high, 107.5cm wide, 52.5cm deep
Provenance
Purchased from Boss Antiques, Petworth on 23rd October 1968.
Catalogue Note
See Percy MacQuoid and Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Vol. III (M to Z.), published by Country Life, London, 1927, p. 268, fig. 44 for a similar console table originally at Lyme Park.