A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE, English, circa 1760
Diameter of top: 32 in; 82 cm
Further images
An extremely rare and fine quality mid 18th century Chippendale period carved mahogany tripod table of exceptional colour and patination, with moulded and waved border to the circular tip-up top with bird cage action; on turned and baluster support with bold cabriole legs carved on the knees with interlaced scrolling foliage and terminating in eagle’s claw and ball feet.
This magnificent tripod table was part of a group acquired under the auspices of the great English furniture historian, R.W. Symonds, for his most distinguished client Percival Griffiths. The collection is now regarded as one of the seminal collections of English furniture assembled during the 20th century, and this well documented table is extraordinary in the richness of its colour and fluidity of its carved piecrust top.
Provenance
Percival D. Griffiths, FSA, Sandrigebury, Kent;
Geoffrey Blackwell, Esq.;
Mrs. Dorothy Hart,
Her sale Christie's, London, 16 April 1964, lot 119, 1,200 guineas, to;
Partridge Fine Arts, London, by whom sold to;
Shreve, Crump & Lowe, by whom sold to;
Private Collection, Boston;
Private Collection, London.
Literature
Illustrated:
Herbert Cescinsky, 'English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton’ 1929 illus, p. 319.
R. W. Symonds 'Sandridgebury; the country residence of Mr. Percival Griffiths'. Antiques, March 1931.
R. W. Symonds 'English Furniture from Charles II to George II', 1929 p.195, figs. 154 & 155.
Ralph Edwards and L.G. Ramsey, 'The Early Georgian Period 1714-1760', The Connoisseur Period Guides, 1957, pl. 15a.
Ronald Phillips Catalogue 2005, p. 208
