George III Marquetry and Giltwood Demi-Lune Side or Console Table in the manner of Mayhew and Ince
£6,200
A fine gilt-wood demi-lune pier table or side table in the manner of Mayhew and Ince, with a marquetried top depicting swags with birds, a central anthemion and palmettes on a satinwood ground, the giltwood base with fluted frieze interrupted by sunflower paterae and with central pendant of acanthus leaf scrolls; raised on turned tapering legs with stiff-leaf collars and ring-turned feet
The golden table-top of satinwood, with swagged border and anthemion motifs reflects the ‘Roman’ fashion introduced in the 1760s by Robert and James Adam and popularised in the following decade by their The Works in Architecture, 1773-1779, and in particular by their pattern for a ‘commode-table’ top for Derby House, London (vol. II, pl. VIII). Its elliptic and antique-fluted frame with sunflowered patterae and columnar legs, wreathed by palms also relates to Robert Adam’s 1768 design for a table for Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square (see E. Harris, The Furniture of Robert Adam, London, 1963, pl. 16).
