Live Auction 7812Belgravia and Lake Geneva - Two European Collections
Christie’s roundel
Lot 86

A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD OCTAGONAL CENTRE TABLE

CIRCA 1830

Closed14 May 2009

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GBP 3,250

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A NORTH ITALIAN GILTWOOD OCTAGONAL CENTRE TABLE
CIRCA 1830
The later octagonal top with inset variegated rouge marble, on a naturalistically-carved trunk, with a bird in a nest and a parrot with a dog and a putti beneath
20 in. (51 cm.) wide, 30 in. (77.5 cm.) high, 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

The late Sir Philip Shelbourne, Myles Place, Salisbury, Wiltshire, sold Christie's house sale 25-26 October 1993, lot 101.

Specialist note

This table, with its sporting figure hunting a bird, is designed in the Louis XV picturesque style popularised by Thomas Johnson of Soho (d. 1778) and revived in the mid-19th Century. It relates to a pattern illustrated by G.W. Yapp in Art Industry Furniture etc., 1879 (E.T. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 556).