A GEORGE II GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE

An extremely rare and highly important mid 18th century carved giltwood side table in the manner of Batty Langley, retaining the original rectangular 'Rosso Levanto' marble top above a moulded arcaded frieze with floral decoration, and with a shaped pendent apron carved with laurel branches and centred by medallions with opposing carved Roman heads; on five square cabriole legs headed by carved shells and finely decorated with trailing acanthus leaf, terminating in inscrolled toes.

English, circa 1740

Height: 2 ft 8 ¾ in; 83.5 cm
Width: 5 ft 1 ¼ in; 156 cm
Depth: 2 ft 7 in; 79 cm

Provenance:
Elmore Court, Gloucestershire.

Literature:
Elizabeth White, ‘Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design: The Printed Sources’, 1990, p. 264, plate CXLVII.
Jaques Dubarry de Lassale, ‘Identifying Marble’, 2000, pp.64-5.