A Pair of George Ii Giltwood Side Tables

Each rectangular frieze with canted front corners and carved in relief with a Greek key pattern, beneath an overhanging egg-and-dart border and a thin molding of ribbon-and-rosette, with canted front legs, and set sideways at the back, rectangular in section and formed as convolute scrolls, carved with acanthus decoration to the shoulders, knees, and feet; the lower sections with a coin pattern and the sides with fish-scale ornament; between the legs at the front and sides are later added swirling acanthus leaves and oak leaf swags, joined at the center front by a large scallop shell also of a later date; the tops are surmounted by later yellow marble slabs of conforming shape; the frames re-gilt

Estimate:£37,755.8

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