AFTER A DESIGN BY JOHN LINNELL, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY NORTH EUROPEAN

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A GEORGE III GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE
AFTER A DESIGN BY JOHN LINNELL, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY NORTH EUROPEAN
With associated later alabastro fiorito and veined black and yellow marble top above a fluted frieze with central portrait medallion, on fluted tapering square legs and foliate feet, the veined black and yellow veneered borders of a later date
32 in. (82.5 cm.) high, 61½ in. (156 cm.) wide, 30½ in. (77.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from R. L. Harrington, London, 1963.

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Lot Essay

The present table closely adheres to a design by John Linnell of circa 1762, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum and illustrated here (see C. Musgrave, Adam and Hepplewhite and other neoclassical Furniture, London, 1966, fig. 36). The portrait medallion and robust fluted legs also appear on a design for an armchair, circa 1768-1770 (H. Heyward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London, 1980, p. 43, fig. 83). Portrait medallions feature on a number of notable Linnell works of various forms, including the magnificent giltwood sofa in the State Drawing Room at Kedleston Hall (op. cit., fig. 34) and a set of eight lyre-back armchairs in the Library at Osterley Park, c. 1773 (ibid., fig. 64).

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