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A GEORGE I GESSO CONSOLE TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES MOORE, English, circa 1720
Height 34½ in.; 87.5 cm
Width 44½ in.; 113 cm
Depth 24 in.; 61cm4465611Further images
A highly important early 18th century carved gesso console table attributed to James Moore, having a shaped rectangular top profusely decorated with strapwork and acanthus leaf and a central coat...A highly important early 18th century carved gesso console table attributed to James Moore, having a shaped rectangular top profusely decorated with strapwork and acanthus leaf and a central coat of arms of Lucy Knightley and his wife Jane Grey Benson on a pounced ground; with a leaf carved edge above conformingly shaped frieze with stiff leaf and arcaded decoration, having a central pendant with shell carving to the front; supported by four moulded scrolled legs with carved heads at the top and terminating in acanthus leaf carved scrolls on a shaped moulded plinth with floral shell decoration terminating in sanded block feet.Provenance
Fawsley Hall, Northamptonshire, until 1914;
Frank Partridge and Sons Ltd., 1953;
H. Blairman & Sons Ltd, 1957;
Private collection, USA.Exhibitions
The Antique Dealers Fair and Exhibition, Grosvenor House, London, 1958, with H. Blairman & Sons Ltd.Literature
H.Avray Tipping, ‘English Homes’Period II, Vol I, 1924, p.325
Lanto Synge, ‘Mallett, Great English Furniture’, London, 1991, p.86Illustrated:
The Connoisseur Yearbook, 1953, a trade advertisement for Frank Partridge & Sons Ltd.
The Connoisseur, October, 1957, p.XLV, a trade advertisement for H. Blairman & Sons Ltd.
