A VICTORIAN GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED EBONY AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE, MID-19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY SUPPLIED BY EDWARD HOLMES BALDOCK
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September 9, 02:41 PM GMT
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15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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A VICTORIAN GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED EBONY AND MARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE, MID-19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY SUPPLIED BY EDWARD HOLMES BALDOCK
the quarter-veneered ebony top profusely inlaid with flowers, birds, butterflies and grotesque masks, on three gilt-bronze dolphins centred around gilt-bronze mounted finial, the tri-form plinth base on concealed castors
82.5cm. high, 150cm. diameter; 2ft. 6¼in., 4ft. 11in.
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Probably acquired by Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818 –1874), Mentmore, Buckinghamshire;
Thence by descent to Hannah de Rothschild, later Countess of Rosebery (1851 – 1890), Mentmore, Buckinghamshire;
Thence by descent until sold Sotheby's London, Mentmore, 18 May 1977, lot 100 (£5,000).
Christopher Payne, European Furniture of the 19th century, 1981, p.224.