A pair of George III style giltwood tree-form marble-top console tables

These are very decorative tables. The marble is particularly attractive. One marble top sits slightly unevenly on its base. There are losses to gilding and gesso revealing pine and white gesso. There are separations to joints. The gilding though is generally stable and has some ingrained dirt.
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These tables are inspired by designs for 'rustic furniture’ from the middle of the 18^th century. There were a number of published sources with engravings depicting highly fashionable Chinoiserie ‘root’ furniture. Matthias Lock featured natural, rustic elements in his pattern book, A New Book of Ornaments from 1752. In the 1740's Lock worked with apprentice designer and cabinetmaker Thomas Johnson who was influenced by the designs of Lock, a fact he noted in his book Life of the Artist of 1793. Johnson is often associated with the style of the offered tables, largely as a result of his own publications Twelve Gerandoles [sic] published in 1755 and in his Collection of Designs from 1758 which including a tree-form base for a pier table (plate 40).