A 'KENTIAN' STAINED PINE PIER TABLE

The marble-topped sideboard-table, with Greek-key architectural motif and lion-mask scrolled pilasters, is designed in the George II 'Roman' fashion associated with Inigo Jones (d.1652) and the Rome-trained artist/architect William Kent (d.1748) (see Issac Ware, Designs of Inigo Jones and others, 1731). The Greek-key motif features prominently on a Kent design of 1744 for a pedestal table at Chiswick House (see P.Ward-Jackson, English Furniture Designs of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1958, pl.15).