Unusual carved mahogany side table with marble top

Unusual carved mahogany side table with marble top, the frieze with a series of conjoined lancets, between a top moulding of stiff leaf within a lappet on a punched ground, and the lower, a variant of egg and dart, the legs headed by a double over-laid aqueous shell, the upright legs carved as elongated corbels, rather as masonry, the front mouldings centred by a bead and reel, neo-classic ornament at the sides, on square block feet. English, c. 1780. Replaced verde antico marble top.

Provenance :-  Boughton Monchelsea Place, Kent. The history of the house dates back to before the Norman Conquest, when it was owned by the Saxon Earl Godwin. It was subsequently given by William the Conqueror to his half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux.

The house in its present form dates from the late-16th Century, when it was owned by Robert Rudston. In the late-17th Century the house was inherited by Thomas Rider, and it descended in his family until 1903, when it was bought by Lt-Col. G. B. Winch, whose family owned it until recently.

Previously, this table might have been one of a pair from Yotes Court, Kent, the seat of the Viscounts Torrington, sold at auction on the premises, October 1st-3rd 1923. Lt.-Col. Winch bought no less than 40 lots in the sale at Yotes Court, and it is tempting to identify this present table with one of a pair of tables sold from the Dining Room as lots 507 and 508 :- ‘A 5ft. 10in. ADAMS MAHOGANY CARVING TABLE, the frieze to front and ends with carved flutings and cartouches, on 6 legs’, and ‘THE COMPANION CARVING TABLE’ (108 guineas for the two).

These two lots were apparently sold together, the tables being bought at the sale by the London dealers, Partridge, and not by Lt.-Col. Winch, but it is not hard to imagine that, wanting only one, he might have subsequently acquired one of them from Partridge.

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