A GEORGE I GESSO TABLE, English, circa 1720
Height: 30 ¾ in; 78 cm
Width: 38 ½ in; 98 cm
Depth: 22 ½ in; 57 cm
Width: 38 ½ in; 98 cm
Depth: 22 ½ in; 57 cm
4467531
£100,000 +
The table retains virtually all the original gesso and gilding.
The table retains virtually all the original gesso and gilding.
Provenance
Private collection, USA;
Mallett & Son Ltd., London, England, 1967;
Private collection, USA.
Literature
Illustrated:
Apollo, September 1967, appendix LII; with Mallett & Son Ltd.
F. Lewis Hinckley, A Directory of Queen Anne, Early Georgian and Chippendale Furniture, 1971, p. 123, illus. 196.
Sotheby’s, London, ‘Important English Furniture’, sale catalogue, 19 April 1974, lot 44, pl. 5.