AN IMPORTANT GEORGE II GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE in the Manner of William Kent with a green marble top over a frieze carved with a central scallop shell flanked by flowering branches and the sides with conforming carving, on twisted dolphin supports with scaly bodies with winged fins issuing from the mouth, 49" See Illustration. Provenance: The Hoare Family and thence by descent. The bold execution of this distinctive pier table is reminiscent of William Kent's oeuvre. It relates closely to the published designs of Batty Langley and William Jones Langley's "The City and Country Builder and Workmen's Treasury of Designs", published in 1740, includes several plates which relate to the present table. Plate CXLVI (the design published in 1739) is comparable in overall form, although there are marked variations. This particular plate indicates the table offered here may originally have had a rectangular plinth base.
AN IMPORTANT GEORGE II GILTWOOD CONSOLE TABLE in the Manner of William Kent with a green marble top over a frieze carved with a central scallop shell flanked by flowering branches and the sides with conforming carving, on twisted dolphin supports with scaly bodies with winged fins issuing from the mouth, 49" See Illustration. Provenance: The Hoare Family and thence by descent. The bold execution of this distinctive pier table is reminiscent of William Kent's oeuvre. It relates closely to the published designs of Batty Langley and William Jones Langley's "The City and Country Builder and Workmen's Treasury of Designs", published in 1740, includes several plates which relate to the present table. Plate CXLVI (the design published in 1739) is comparable in overall form, although there are marked variations. This particular plate indicates the table offered here may originally have had a rectangular plinth base.
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