Live Auction 5971An English Look - Robert Kime, Piers von Westenholz, David Bedale and James Graham-Stewart
Christie’s roundel
Lot 340

A WILLIAM IV WHITE-PAINTED AND MARBLE 'JACOBETHAN' CONSOLE TABLE

CIRCA 1830

Closed8 July 2009

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GBP 6,000

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A WILLIAM IV WHITE-PAINTED AND MARBLE 'JACOBETHAN' CONSOLE TABLE
CIRCA 1830
The breakfront top above a pierced fretwork frieze and scrolled end supports joined by an undertier, on bun feet
33½ in. (85 cm.) high; 64½ in. (164 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

The Thornhill family, Stanton Hall, Derbyshire.

Specialist note

Messrs Crace and Sons, decorators to the Prince of Wales, later George IV, supplied similar 'Jacobethan' furniture to Knebworth House, Hertfordshire. The novelist Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (d.1873) remodelled the house in 1843 and employed John Crace to decorate the interior. Much of Crace's decoration was swept away in Edwardian times by Sir Edwin Lutyens, but his magnificent State Drawing Room survives.