Bonhams 1793 : A Regency rosewood, ebonised, parcel gilt and ormolu mounted console table in the manner of George Smith

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21 Nov 2012 14:00 GMT London, New Bond Street
Fine English Furniture
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A Regency rosewood, ebonised, parcel gilt and ormolu mounted console table

in the manner of George Smith
The rectangular black slate marble top above a frieze centred by an Apollo mask paterae flanked by lotus and anthemion mounts and stars, on winged leopard monopodiae with stylised lotus collars terminating in paw feet, with a mirror plate backing and inverted plinth base, 128.5cm wide, 41cm deep, 95cm high (50.5" wide, 16" deep, 37" high).

Estimate:

£15,000 - 20,000
€18,000 - 23,000
US$ 23,000 - 30,000

Footnotes

The ormolu mounting with the Apollo's head roundel and stylised palmette related to the style of mounted favoured by Mount Street cabinet-makers March and Tatham, whose mounted have been linked to the French Bronze-founder Alexis Decaix of Old Bond Street. Related friezes appear on a pair of bookcases thought to have been supplied for Henry, 3rd Marquis of Lansdowne for either Bowood, Wiltshire or Lansdowne House, London and sold Christie's, 14 June 2001, lot 174. Similar mounts appear on a bookcase by Marsh and Tatham supplied to George IV at Windsor in 1806 (RCIN 21705), illustrated in H.Roberts, For the Kings Pleasure , The Furnishing and Decorating of George IV's Apartments at Windsor Castle, London 2001, p.333, fig.414.

The monopodia reflect the 'antique' taste prevalent in England at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries and encouraged by Charles Heathcote Tatham's Etchings of Ancient Ornamental Architecture drawn from the originals in Rome...1794-6, published in 1801.

Category: Furniture / English Furniture and Works of Art

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