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A George II carved giltwood console table
20 November 2013, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £40,000 inc. premium
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A George II carved giltwood console table
The later rectangular portor marble top above a leaf moulding and a strapwork and paterae carved frieze, centred by a shell issuing scrolling acanthus leaves, with acanthus and 'C' scroll carved cabriole legs, on a scaly ground, with hairy hocks and claw and ball feet, 96cm wide, 47cm deep, 80cm high (37.5in wide, 18.5in deep, 31in high).
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Provenance:
The late Gertrude (Williams) Landy (1911-2013), the founding chair of British Emunah.
Gertrude (Gertie) Landy was born in the East End of London, her father was a Russian immigrant and her mother was a member of the Kutchinsky family, the well known jewellers.
During the First World War her family moved to Portsmouth, where they furnished their house with items bought at an auction containing some contents from Osborne House. The family returned to London in 1924, where Gertie soon became Chairman of the Young Zionist Society. In 1935 she met and married Harry Landy and moved to Hampstead Garden Suburb. In 1947 she inaugurated the Women's Mizrachi Movement (now Emunah) of which she was chairman from 1947 to 1968 and then Founder President.
A similar George II gesso side table sold Sotheby's, London 18th November 1983, lot 79 (26,400 including buyer's premium). A related design for a pier table was published by William Jones in The Gentleman or Builder's Companion, 1739, pl. 27.