Description & Technical information

The table retains virtually all the original gesso and gilding.

Date:  circa 1720
Period:  George I
Origin:  English
Medium: Gesso
Dimensions: 78 x 98 x 57 cm (30³/₄ x 38⁵/₈ x 22¹/₂ inches)
Provenance: Private collection, USA.
Mallett & Son Ltd., London, England, 1967.
Private collection, USA.
Literature: Apollo, September 1967, appendix LII; with Mallett & Son Ltd.
F. Lewis Hinckley, A Directory of Queen Anne, Early Georgian and Chippendale Furniture, 1971, p. 123, illus. 196.
Sotheby’s, London, ‘Important English Furniture’, sale catalogue, 19 April 1974, lot 44, pl. 5.
Categories: Furniture