Live Auction 7611Furniture, Sculpture and Carpets
A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED, EBONISED AND PENWORK TRIPOD TABLE
Lot 88 THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE LORD AND LADY ILIFFE OF BASILDON PARK
(LOTS 78-88)

A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED, EBONISED AND PENWORK TRIPOD TABLE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed11 September 2008

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GBP 937

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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED, EBONISED AND PENWORK TRIPOD TABLE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top with gilt metal-mounted moulded edge depicting a scene from Virgil's Aeneid, on turned baluster stem mounted with rosettes, on double C-scroll legs on ball feet, losses top penwork decoration
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 18¼ in. (46.5 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep

Specialist note

The Etruscan-black table's flower-wreathed tablet depicts a scene from Virgil's 'Aeneid'. Aeneas, the legendary founder of the Roman race, rides to the defence of the Latins and Trojans against the challenge of Turnus, who is checked by Jupiter's thunderbolts.