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Pair of Adam Period Polychrome Papier Mache & Japanned D-shaped Pier Tables

Offered by: Philip Colleck, Ltd.

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Pair of Adam Period Polychrome Papier Mache & Japanned D-Shaped Pier Tables in the "Etruscan" Taste, attributed to Henry Clay of Birmingham. Each table with a "stoved" papier-mache top, having alternating palmette and foliate border issuing a demi-lune featured reserve with bellflowers, palmettes, and beaded decoration. The conforming frieze with ribbon-tied berried laurel swags with oval paterae above the legs framing classically draped "Roman" female figures, raised on square tapering legs painted with berried laurel vines and ivory edging and applied ankle collars. English circa 1775.

Height: 33 1/2" Length: 76" Depth: 25 3/4"
Provenance: Hotspur, Ltd., London, Exhibited and illustrated in 1962 Grosvenor House Fair Catalog as "One of an important pair of 18th century Adam period side tables.", Private Collection, United States.
Please also see Yvonne Jones, "Japanned Papier Mache & Tinware 1740-1940," Antique Collectors Club, 2012.

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