Live Auction 5914Christie's Interiors
Christie’s roundel
Lot 328

A GEORGE IV PIETRA DURA, EBONISED AND AND PARCEL-GILT CENTRE TABLE

THE TOP ITALIAN, THE BASE ENGLISH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed30 June 2009

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GBP 4,750

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A GEORGE IV PIETRA DURA, EBONISED AND AND PARCEL-GILT CENTRE TABLE
THE TOP ITALIAN, THE BASE ENGLISH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The top with an inset pietra dura specimen panel centred by a bird on a fruiting branch
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 33 in. (84 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Listed in the inventory made by John Lloyd Clayton (1796-1855) in 1833 for No.6 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London, W1 and by descent.

Specialist note

Please see lot 370 which has a similar base and would have almost certainly been supplied by the same maker.
This table has lyre-scrolled trestles wreathed in Roman acanthus in the George IV Louis Quatorze fashion. A pattern for a related table, intended to serve as parlour breakfast-table sofa-table is illustrated in R. Ackermanns 1809 Repository of Arts.