Apter-Fredericks

Important 18th & 19th Century Antique Furniture

Gilt

A George III Carved Gilt-Wood Chippendale Mirror
A Pair of Late 18th Century Pontypool Chestnut Urns
A Nineteenth Century Three Tier Etagere
A Regency Period Rosewood & Parcel-Gilt Side-Cabinet
A George I Carved Giltwood Side Table
A George III Carved Gilt-Wood Mirror
A George III Carved Giltwood Overmantel Mirror
An Important Pair of George III Gilt-wood Settees in the Manner of Thomas Chippendale the Younger
A Pair of Regency Period Amboyna & Brass Mounted Etageres with Simulated Marble Tops
A Pair of George III Giltwood Bergeres Atrributed to Francois Herve and Probably Supplied by Henry Holland.
A Nineteenth Century Tole Watering Can
A Regency Period Painted Tole Basket with Pierced and Gilded Decoration
A Pair of Regency Parcel-Gilt Corner Shelves
A Magnificent Carlton House Boulle-Inlaid Table Designed for George, The Prince of Wales, The Prince Regent,
A George III Parcel-Gilt and Painted Satinwood Pier Table
A George III Giltwood Border Glass Mirror
A Pair of Regency Day Beds
A Regency Rosewood and Brass-Inlaid Side Cabinet Attributed to Gillow of Lancaster
A Pair of George III Giltwood Armchairs By Thomas Chippendale
A Regency Period Giltwood and Ebonised Girandole Convex Mirror
A Pair of George III Adam Period Carved Giltwood Mirrors
A George III Carved Giltwood Mirror
An Important Pair of Regency Period Rosewood Side Cabinets
A Rare and Unusually Large Early 19th Century Nodding Figure of a Chinaman Attributed to Giovanni Domenico Gianelli
A Most Impressive George II Carved Gilt-Wood Mirror
A Pair of George III Carved Giltwood Mirrors
A Superb Pair of Giltwood Girandoles Attributed to William France
A George III Carved Giltwood Overmantel Mirror
A Pair of Nineteenth Century Regency Penwork Tables
A Nineteenth Century Etagere of Most Unusual Form and Fine Quality
A George III Oval Carved Giltwood Wall Mirror
A Garniture of Three 19th Century Bloor Derby Porcelain Bough Pots
A Mid Nineteenth Century Decorated Tole Jardiniere
A Pair of George I Carved Giltwood Mirrors
An Exceptional George III Carved Gilt Wood Oval Mirror
A Regency Period Carved Giltwood Convex Mirror
A Rare Queen Anne Blue Japanned Bureau Cabinet
A George III Chippendale Period Carved Mahogany Commode
A Very Rare Pair of Cloisonné Cranes
A George III Rolled Paperwork Box, decorated by Mary Earnshaw of Wakefield in 1795
A Pair of George III Gilt Carton-Pierre Oval Mirrors
A Highly Important George III Carved Giltwood Pier Mirror
A George III Chippendale Period Carved Giltwood Mirror
A George III Inlaid Occasional Table in the Manner of Pierre Langlois
A Very Rare Pair of Eighteenth Century Coalport Lustres
A Rare Regency Rosewood and Parcel-Gilt Revolving Bookstand
A Pair of George III Period Satinwood, Decorated and Parcel-Gilt Side Tables
A Pair of Robert Adam designed Giltwood Torcheres
A Fine Pair of Harewood And Inlaid Side Tables by William Gates
A Superb Pair of Empire Figural Candelabra
A Very Rare Pair of Queen Anne Giltwood Border Glass Mirrors
A Regency Period Gilt, Ebonised and Decorated Wall Sconce
A Highly Important Georgian Giltwood Mirror Designed By Matthias Lock and Signed by the Carver James Hill
A George III Regency Period Convex Mirror by Thomas Fentham
A George III Parcel-Gilt and Painted Satinwood Pier Table (detail)

A George III Parcel-Gilt and Painted Satinwood Pier Table

Height: 2'11" 90cm
Width: 5' 8" 174cm
Depth: 24" 62cm

The semi-elliptical table features a superbly decorated satinwood top above a similarly decorated frieze. The top is veneered in satinwood and painted with naturalistic flower swags bordered by a detailed guilloche pattern. The frieze is hung with flower sprays and centered by Cupid's arrows gathered in a quiver and ribbon-tied with the flaming torch of Hymenaios (the Roman god of marriage), symbolizing the union of love and marriage. The table is supported on four stop-fluted gilt-wood legs.

The quality and originality of the decoration is exceptional and the colour of the satinwood has transformed over time and has a lustrous quality rarely seen.

English, Circa 1785

Bantry House, County Cork, Ireland

This satinwood table reflects a time when the court of George III (d.1820) was seeking to combine the Roman taste popularized in England by Robert Adam with that of the French court of Louis XVI (d.1793). The flower swags featured on the top of the table closely relate to a design for a Gobelins tapestry commissioned in 1772 to decorate the so-called Tapestry Room in the State Apartment at Osterley Park, Middlesex.

From the end of the 1770s the taste for painted decoration grew with Émigré painters having considerable influence, particularly in the use of design motifs originating from continental Europe. Apart from its aesthetic introduction of colour, painted decoration does not fade and proved to be a more cost effective method of decoration than marquetry.

The present table relates to other examples of furniture featuring very similar painted decoration with swags of ribbon-tied flowers against a satinwood reserve. This includes a pair of pier tables in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Merseyside (see Percy MacQuoid, The Leverhulme Art Collections, 1928, vol. III, No. 377 pl. 94) and a semi-circular table that was part of a group of furniture supplied to Lord Howard de Walden by the firm of Chipcase & Lambert between 1768 and 1786 for Audley End, Suffolk (see Ralph Edwards and Percy MacQuoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1954 rev. ad., 3 vols., vol. Ill, p. 300, fig. 75).