Property from an Important Private Collection
A GEORGE II GREY PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE TABLE, CIRCA 1755, IN THE MANNER OF PAUL SAUNDERS
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November 12, 05:03 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Property from an Important Private Collection
A GEORGE II GREY PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CONSOLE TABLE, CIRCA 1755, IN THE MANNER OF PAUL SAUNDERS
the original serpentine Sienna marble top above a carved and pierced foliate frieze on the diaper ground, on conjoined scroll supports, the left leg bearing a metal inventory label numbered LK8649, redecorated, restorations
83cm. high, 112cm. wide, 60cm. deep; 2ft. 8¾in., 3ft. 8in., 1ft. 11¾in.
Possibly commissioned by James Unwin (1717-1774) for Wootton Lodge, Staffordshire;
Brigadier General Sir Hill Child, until sold from Wootton Lodge in the late 1950s/early 1960s (see fig. 1);
Acquired from Ronald Phillips Ltd.
'Wootton Lodge II, Country Life, London, 1959, Vol. CXXV, p. 522.
The present lot relates to the output of cabinet-makers established by Paul Saunders (1722-71), who in partnership with George Smith Bradshaw (d.1812) were involved in completing the furnishing of Petworth, Sussex, Holkham Hall, Norfolk and Hagley, Worcestershire. A pair of console tables at Hagley forms the best point of comparison for the present lot and its attribution to Saunders (John Cornforth, Early Georgian Interiors, Yale, 2004, p. 305, illus. 418). Sharing the same elaborate rococo carving to the frieze and legs, both tables are parcel gilt with white under coat which accentuates the flowing pastoral motifs used in the rococo carvings.