A pair of George III pale blue and polychrome-painted giltwood side tables, circa 1775, possibly by Mayhew and Ince to a design by Robert Adam, the painted tablets after Angelica Kauffmann and possibly executed by Antonio Zucchi

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

July 6, 02:09 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

A pair of George III pale blue and polychrome-painted giltwood side tables

circa 1775, possibly by Mayhew and Ince to a design by Robert Adam, the painted tablets after Angelica Kauffmann and possibly executed by Antonio Zucchi

each demi-lune top centred by a classical scene from Homer's Odyssey (Telemachus returning to Penelope or Telemachus at the Court of Sparta) within a frame surmounted by an urn, flanked by oval urn medallions wreathed by laurel branches, within a frieze of palmettes within beaded borders, the frieze with classical urns interspersed by turned fluted legs headed by female masks on reeded ovoid feet

Larger 89cm. high, 166cm. wide, 56.5cm. deep; 2ft. 11in., 5ft. 5½in., 1ft. 10¼in.

Smaller 89cm. high, 156cm. wide, 56.5cm. deep; 2ft. 11in., 5ft. 1½in., 1ft. 10¼in.

Please note the tables were probably conceived for piers of different widths and therefore vary slightly in width. One top is 166cm. wide (5ft. 5½in.) and the other is 156cm. wide (5ft. 1½in.)

Possibly supplied for Sir Watkins Williams-Wynn, 4th Bart (d. 1789) at 20 St. James's Square, London;
Robert L. Gerry, almost certainly Robert Livingston Gerry, New York and 'Aknusti', Deli, New York (d. 1957);
Possibly acquired by French & Company, New York on 4 June 1953;
Sold by French & Company to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Smith, Palm Beach and Southampton, New York on 31 October 1953;
Sold Sotheby's New York, 12 May 2000, lot 178 ($143,250);
Acquired from the above by Hyde Park Antiques, New York;
Private Collection;
Sold Christie's New York, 13 April 2016, lot 25 ($245,000) from where acquired by the present owner.

E. Eerdmans, Classic English Design and Antiques: Period Styles and Furniture, The Hyde Park Antiques Collection, Rizzoli International Publications, 2006, p. 194.
E. Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam, London, 2001.
The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 137, No. 1107 (Jun., 1995), pp. 376-386.
Country Life Magazine, John Martin Robinson, '20 St. James' Square, London', November 2, 1989, pp. 152-157.