Probably to a design by Henry Flitcroft, a serpentine marble-topped carved wood and gilt gesso console table, probably 18th century and later, with shaped thick green variegated marble top the base pierced and carved with fruit, shells and swags of floral rope, supported by well-carved Vitruvian monopodia with eagle carved detail and scale filled panels, terminating in eagle's claw feet. 194 cm wide x 85 cm deep x 92 cm overall height.

Ex, Sotheby's Newsells Park Auction, the lot number is unknown.

Please see The Dictionary of English Furniture, Edwards, Ralph, pages 285/286 for somewhat similar tables.

Ex, Sotheby's Newsells Park Auction, the lot number is unknown.

Please see The Dictionary of English Furniture, Edwards, Ralph, pages 285/286 for somewhat similar tables.

Condition Report

The table has some losses to the gesso and the former owners have applied liquid leaf or some other product, the frame is made from pine and it has been sized for some reason to the unfinished areas the timber shows some gouge back-cutting to the edges of the carving as seen on 18th-century pieces (to give a lighter profile) it is possible to see some diagonal saw chatter on the inner frame,

The bearers below the slab are later replacements and further to this I think the egg and tongue moulding also is later, but this is purely my opinion.

The frame has one swag that has come loose but we have the item,

The Sotheby's catalogue entry for the lot suggests that the piece is from the 19th century but I am unsure given the above.