A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CIRCULAR TRIPOD TABLE, MID 18TH CENTURY

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CIRCULAR TRIPOD TABLE MID 18TH CENTURY The tilt top with a rocaille wave carved edge, on down scrolled legs with shell feet 78cm high, 82.5cm diameter Footnote: The pattern of this tea table relates to designs for ‘Claw Tables’ published in Ince & Mayhew’s pattern book Universal System of Household Furniture, 1759-62, plate XIII. A table with closely related base is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1927, vol.III, p.198, fig.10. Other tables of similar design whose maker is yet to be identified include two tables in the collection of Fred Skull. One, which was acquired in 1952 by Judge Irwin Untermyer after Skull’s death and subsequently bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York was sold Christie’s New York, 11 December 2014, lot 9. The second was later sold from the J. Ivan Yates collection, Sotheby’s London, 2 April 1971, lot 33. Condition Report: part of the foliate carved wave edge has been recarved and other sections of the edge repaired Condition Report Disclaimer, A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CIRCULAR TRIPOD TABLE, A GEORGE II MAHOGANY CIRCULAR TRIPOD TABLE MID 18TH CENTURY The tilt top with a rocaille wave carved edge, on down scrolled legs with shell feet 78cm high, 82.5cm diameter Footnote: The pattern of this tea table relates to designs for ‘Claw Tables’ published in Ince & Mayhew’s pattern book Universal System of Household Furniture, 1759-62, plate XIII. A table with closely related base is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1927, vol.III, p.198, fig.10. Other tables of similar design whose maker is yet to be identified include two tables in the collection of Fred Skull. One, which was acquired in 1952 by Judge Irwin Untermyer after Skull’s death and subsequently bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York was sold Christie’s New York, 11 December 2014, lot 9. The second was later sold from the J. Ivan Yates collection, Sotheby’s London, 2 April 1971, lot 33. Footnote:, Universal System of Household Furniture, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Condition Report:, part of the foliate carved wave edge has been recarved and other sections of the edge repaired, Condition Report Disclaimer

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