Pair of Side-Tables
Artist: English
Location: Kenwood House
Date: 1700 - 1800
Materials: boxwood
Dimensions: 89 x 183 x 76 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £250 (Total: £850)
Vendor: Frank Partridge
Review number: 1836 (1956)
Provenance:
Olantigh Towers, Wye, Kent, rebuilt by John Sawbridge in 1768; by descent to Mr John C W Sawbridge-Erle-Drax.
Description:
In the centre of the top of each side-table is a large, shaped oval with sprays of flowers, tied with a lovers' knot, inlaid in boxwood; the oval is surrounded by a pattern of trellised vines inlaid in satinwood, within a cross-banded walnut border edged with gilt metal gadroons. Each stand, supported by four circular tapering legs carved in twisted spirals, is of gilt wood decorated with a stylized frieze and draped with swags of gilded lime-wood. A figure in high relief of a lion on one table and of a lioness on the other is encircled by a laurel wreath. The tables came from Olantigh Towers, Wye, Kent, the last owner being a direct descendant of John Sawbridge, who rebuilt Olantigh in 1768. A lion is the Sawbridge crest.
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