Live Auction 21607The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection: Volume 4 | Chinese Works of Art, English and European Furniture and Decorative Arts, Day Sale
A REGENCY PARCEL-GILT, OCHRE AND WHITE-PAINTED COLUMN OCCASIONAL TABLE
Lot 661

A REGENCY PARCEL-GILT, OCHRE AND WHITE-PAINTED COLUMN OCCASIONAL TABLE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY, ADAPTED

Closed23 October 2022

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A REGENCY PARCEL-GILT, OCHRE AND WHITE-PAINTED COLUMN OCCASIONAL TABLE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, ADAPTED
The later leather top inset with a panel of Islamic geometric-pattern leather, on a stylized column headed by a paneled section with lion's masks, above a cusped paneled body and on replaced acanthus-headed lion's paw feet, the cusps later, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
28 1/4 in. (72 cm.) high, 18 1/2 in. (47 cm.) diameter

The Dukes of Wellington, Stratfield Saye, Hampshire, ‌from whom acquired directly by James Hepworth, London.
‌Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above in 1993.

Specialist note

This occasional table was adapted from a stool bought by James Hepworth directly from the Dukes of Wellington. It had been in the basement of Stratfield Saye House for more than a century and was covered in dust and grime when acquired. The Wellington Papers reputedly revealed this was originally meant to be a coronation stool for King George IV. While unfounded, it is not inconceivable given the similarities it shares with columns seen in an 1850 watercolor of the Pavilion Breakfast Room (or Chinese Luncheon Room) at Brighton Pavilion by James Roberts, which is in the Royal Collection.