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Pair of Italian Baroque Giltwood Torcheres
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Pair of Italian Baroque Giltwood Torcheres
9878 A pair of Italian Baroque period giltwood and composition torcheres, the dished circular tops on spiral twisted stems, supported on a wide turned circular base with bun feet.
Italian, Florence
Late 17th century
Height: 36 ins (91.5 cms)
Top diameter: 11.5 ins (29 cms) SOLD
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An Irish George II Solid Mahogany Side Table
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An Irish George II Solid Mahogany Side Table
9814 An Irish George II solid mahogany side table, rectangular top with edge moulding, the shaped frieze with a central shell carving standing on cabriole legs with leaf carving to the knees and stiff, hairy paw feet.
Irish.
1750
Width: 153 cm (60.25 ins)
Depth: 61 cm (24 ins)
Height: 77 cm (30.5 ins) SOLD
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A French Louis XVI Style Ebony and Kingwood Marquetry Bureau Plat
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A French Louis XVI Style Ebony and Kingwood Marquetry Bureau Plat
9776 A Louis XVI style ebony and kingwood marquetry bureau plat, constructed from a 17th century bureau attributed to Renaud Gaudron, the rectangular top with a scrolling frieze of birds flowers and insects with ‘grotesque’ masks at the corners, the three frieze drawers similarly inlaid, dummy drawers to the reverse, the end panels with wreaths of flowers and scrolls, standing on square tapering legs with festoon mounts.
French.
1790-1820
The marquetry circa 1700, attributed to Renaud Gaudron, Rue de Richelieu, Paris
Width: 177.5 cm (70 ins)
Depth: 83 cm (32.75 ins)
Height: 81.5 cm (32 ins)
£30,000
Renaud Gaudron was a leading cabinetmaker or ebeniste working in Paris during the period of Louis XIV, he is recorded as furnishing the French Royal palaces between 1687-1713. From his workshop on Rue de Richelieu he supplied the leading tastemakers including the Prince de Conde and the Duc du Chartres as well as Royal clients such as the Duc de Bourgogne and apartments in the palace of Marly.
Gaudron, in common with most cabinetmakers of the time, rarely if ever marked his work but he has been erroneously identified with a brand AG found on extravagant marquetry pieces, some with cut brass and others with complex wood designs, as here. Corner masks with “grotesque” faces typify his output, frequently cut in fruitwoods into an ebony background. Two small eight leg bureau plats in the Royal Garde Meuble received from Gaudron are recorded in a contemporary inventory in 1688 as “wood marquetry of flowers…. having vases of flowers with birds and butterflies”.The marquetry on our bureau plat accurately represents finches among flowers, with butterlies, crickets and bees wandering around the borders and can be associated with recorded designs by Gaudron.
It is intriguing to understand the history of this desk, but it seems likely that originally it was supported on eight, column legs with stretchers and had a central drawer with two (or three) drawers on either side, though a bureau by Gaudron at Chateau de Tanlay, with cabriole legs and identical marquetry has recently been published*. It is probable that at the end of the eighteenth century due to structural wear and tear the legs were replaced and the format of the drawers altered to fit with the current neo-classical Louis XVI taste though the overall dimensions remain unchanged. During the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the table probably arrived in London where the locks were changed and some structural strengthening carried out. The English market was the principal centre for French furniture following the Revolutionary sales in Paris and London retailers such as EH Baldock were particularly attracted to the marquetry of Louis XIV for their English clients.
*Les ebenistes de la Couronne sous le regne de Louis XIV, C. Dumetrescu, 2021, fig 189
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An Italian Louis XV Burr Yew and Cocus Wood Bombe Ladies Reading Table
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An Italian Louis XV Burr Yew and Cocus Wood Bombe Ladies Reading Table
9769 An Italian Louis XV burr yew and cocus wood bombe ladies reading table, the lift-up lectern top with boxwood inlay in a scrolling design, above a silk lined slide and a fitted writing drawer, and with two doors to the front, all similarly inlaid, supported by cabriole legs joined with a veneered inlaid under tier, and on shaped bronze feet.
Italian, Naples?
1760.
Height: 28.25 ins (72 cm)
Width: 17.25 ins (43.5 cm)
Depth: 12.5 ins (32 cm) SOLD
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An Irish George II Mahogany Side Table
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An Irish George II Mahogany Side Table
9786 An Irish George II mahogany and marble topped side table, supported by bold cabriole legs with acanthus carving and ball and claw feet. Carrara marble top replaced.
Irish
1740
Width: 55 ins (140 cms)
Depth: 29.5 ins (74.5 cms)
Height: 30 ins (76 cms) Sold
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A George II Carved and Painted Small Console Table
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A George II Carved and Painted Small Console Table
9724 A rare George II carved and painted small console table, the shaped top with a Campan Rouge marble slab, the frieze carved with a very bold central rocaille shell, the legs with unusual winged satyr masks and leaf carving leading to large, hairy paw feet. Original dry-scraped paintwork and marble top.
English, 1730.
Depth: 19.75 ins (50 cm)
Width: 32.5 ins (82.5 cm)
Height: 30 ins (76.2 cm)
£65,000
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Pair of English Early George III Period Mahogany Torcheres
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Pair of English Early George III Period Mahogany Torcheres
9819 Pair of English early George III period mahogany torcheres, the hexagonal tops with a shaped gallery above a slender turned stem with carved detail and on a tripod base with elongated pad feet.
English.
1760.
Height: 44 ins (110 cm) £6,500
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A French Napoleon III Tortoise Shell Boulle Centre Table
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A French Napoleon III Tortoise Shell Boulle Centre Table
9681 A French Napoleon III tortoise shell Boulle centre table in Regence style, the brown leather top with gilt bronze edge mounts, supported by four cabriole legs with a frieze drawer, the legs mounted with female busts, in the style of Befort Jeune. (Mathieu Befort 1813-1880)
French.
1850-70
Width: 67.5 cm (26.5 ins)
Depth 46 cm (18 ins)
Height: 73 cm (28.75 ins)
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A Chinese Hardwood and Silver Mounted Side Table
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A Chinese Hardwood and Silver Mounted Side Table
9693 A Chinese hardwood and silver mounted side or centre table, re-using a Japanese carved hardwood cabinet top showing an eagle on a gnarled pine tree in a mountain landscape, with engraved silver mounts to the corners. The top Japanese, Meiji period, mid 19th century.
Chinese.
1880
Width: 25.5 ins (64.5 cm)
Depth: 13 ins (33 cm)
Height: 29 ins (74 cm) £4,000
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Italian Piedmontese Louis XIV Giltwood Centre Table
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Italian Piedmontese Louis XIV Giltwood Centre Table
9462 An Italian Piedmontese Louis XIV period giltwood, marble topped centre table, the rectangular broccatello di Spagna marble top with a rounded edge moulding, supported by a plain concave frieze, the pierced and scrolled legs carved with leaves and flowers and joined with a shaped X stretcher centring on a raised openwork brazier centrepiece, and resting on lion paw feet.
Private Roman collection
Italian, Turin.
1720
£30,000
Width: 58.5 ins (149 cm)
Depth: 28.25 ins (69 cm)
Height: 32.5 ins (83 cm)
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Marquetry Table Top By Pierre Gole
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Marquetry Table Top By Pierre Gole
9424 A French or Dutch 17th century ebony and Bois Satine marquetry panel attributed to Pierre Gole, the scrolling, entwined floral design within a fruiting vine border with birds, later reconstructed as a centre table with a frieze drawer in England circa 1840
French, or Dutch
1660-1680
Width: 52.5 ins (133 cms)
Depth: 28.75 ins (73 cms)
Height: 31.5 ins (80 cms) £8,000
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Two Similar George IV Dark Oak and Parcel Gilt Torcheres
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Two Similar George IV Dark Oak and Parcel Gilt Torcheres
9234 Two similar George IV dark oak and parcel gilt marble top torcheres, the circular jasper tops with gilt mouldings, the fluted stems with carved details part gilded, on wide turned bases.
Ex collection Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe, Crewe House, London
English
1825
Height; 33.5 ins (85 cms) and 31 ins (79 cms)
Diameter; 14 ins (36 cms)
SOLD
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Irish Mahogany Side Table by Blain
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Irish Mahogany Side Table by Blain
8760 An Irish or English mahogany side table by Arbuthnot Blain, the solid rectangular top with gadrooned edge above a frieze centring on a large roaring lion mask with scrolling leaf pattern, the cabriole legs with shell and acanthus carving and ball and claw feet. With makers or retailers stamp, A.BLAIN LIVERPOOL
Irish or English
1840-1860
Width: 55 ins (140 cms)
Depth: 27.5 ins (70 cms)
Height: 33 ins (84 cms) £12,000
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Whytock and Reid Edwardian Mahogany Dresser
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Whytock and Reid Edwardian Mahogany Dresser
8335 A fine Edwardian mahogany dresser by Whytock and Reid of Edinburgh in mid-Georgian style, the shaped gallery with quarter veneered top, above two small and two large drawers, with original brass handles, on cabriole legs with exaggerated clubbed pad foot. Stamped WHYTOCK AND REID
Scottish
C.1910-1920Width: 59.5 ins (151cm)
Height: 32 ins (81.5cm)
Depth: 24 ins (61cm) £2,450Quick View
