Carved and partly gilt mahogany console table

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Furniture. Side table/pier table/console table. Carved and partly gilt mahogany console table. The top is inlaid with brass banding of interlacing ribbands enclosing floral quatrefoils. Supported on six scrolling female-headed terminals rising from a shaped base. Mahogany, brass (alloy) inlay, gilt, height 84.6 cm, length 111.8 cm, depth 63.5 cm, circa 1730. George II.

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Accession Number: M.4-1961
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18th Century brass console table English faces Fitz_AA furniture Georgian gilded gilding gilt heads inlaid inlay interlaced interlacing mahogany pier table quatrefoil side table table terminals wood wooden

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