Live Auction 2545500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe Including Oriental Carpets
AN ENGLISH GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
Lot 192 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. AND MRS. FRANCIS D. FOWLER,
WASHINGTON, D.C.

AN ENGLISH GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE

EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed19 April 2012

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USD 15,000

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AN ENGLISH GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
After a design by Matthias Lock, the rectangular red figured marble top above a pierced base formed as a tree with two fully sculpted Chinamen perched in the branches below C-scrolls and leaves, the sides with foliate scrolls
35½ in. (90 cm.) high, 48½ in. (123.5 cm.) wide, 23½ in. (60 cm.) deep

Acquired from Dalva Brothers, Inc., New York, 22 September 1979.

Specialist note

The table is directly based on a design by the carver/designer Matthias Lock, who worked together with Thomas Chippendale but also produced his own 'picturesque' pattern books for wood carvers. This design appears in his A New Book of Ornaments of 1752 (pl. 2), published in conjunction with H. Copland, which subsequently earned him praise 'as the best Draftsman in that way that had ever been in England'.