Lot 14
14
A PAIR OF WHITE-PAINTED, PARCEL-GILT AND SPECIMEN MARBLE DEMI-LUNE SIDE TABLES

THE ITALIAN MARBLE TOPS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE BASES INCORPORATING LATE 18TH GILTWOOD SPHINXES

Details
A PAIR OF WHITE-PAINTED, PARCEL-GILT AND SPECIMEN MARBLE DEMI-LUNE SIDE TABLES
THE ITALIAN MARBLE TOPS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE BASES INCORPORATING LATE 18TH GILTWOOD SPHINXES
Each top inlaid with verde antico, breche d'alep, portor and other specimens in a scale-pattern radiating from a central gothic tracery lunette, the tablet centred frieze with carved anthemions, supported by a winged sphinx, the tops cut from a single slab
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 37 ½ in. (95 cm.) wide; 19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) deep
Literature
A. Coleridge, 'Furniture in the collection of Viscount and Viscountess Lewisham' Connoisseur, November 1962, p. 151, fig. 22.
Sale Room Notice
Please note that the estimate was incorrectly printed in the catalogue and should read £20,000-30,000. The estimate showing online is correct.

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Lot Essay

These tables were featured in a 1962 Connoisseur article on the collection of Lord and Lady Lewisham (the latter later Lady Spencer). These tables would have fitted well into the grand interiors of Lord and Lady Lewisham’s palatial Mayfair home; in the article, Anthony Coleridge describes them as located in ‘Lady Lewisham’s Boudoir’ and refers to the design as ‘pure Adam’ and indeed the tables would make a happy compliment to a late Robert Adam interior scheme, such as that at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire.

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