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n A GEORGE II GILTWOOD MIRROR
CIRCA 1755
With pagoda cresting above a shaped rectangular
frame carved with C-scrolls, scrolling foliage and
icicles, the sides with scrolling foral vines, the
apron with a central cartouche and pierced border,
later additions to the cresting
55 in. (139.7 cm.) high, 25Ω in. (64.7 cm.) wide
$5,000-8,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired from Stair & Company, New York, 3
March 1992.
The Irving Collection, no. G03.

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n AN EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY
CONCERTINA-ACTION CARD TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO PAUL SAUNDERS, CIRCA 1765
The top with later inset green-velvet lining, the rear
rail with a label for ‘LEEDS CITY ART GALLERY/
and/TEMPLE NEWSAM HOUSE/EXHIBITION/
No. Side Table/Mr. P. Dalton/The Hall/Burley
in Wharfedale’, the underside of the oak slide
indistinctly inscribed in white chalk ‘Adam’s /
Damage /P’
29 in. (74 cm.) high, 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide, 17æ in.
(45 cm.) deep, closed
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$15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE
Mr. Percy Dalton, The Hall, Burley-in-Wharfedale,
Yorkshire.
Messrs. Hollis & Webb, 14 - 15 March 1956.
The Collection of Mrs. M. Dalton; Christie’s,
London, 14 November 1991, lot 59.
The Irving Collection, no. G04.

EXHIBITED
Leeds, Temple Newsam House, Furniture by and
in the manner of Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779),
8 June - 15 July 1951, no. 54, lent by Percy Dalton.

This exuberantly carved concertina-action
card table is attributed to the work of Paul
Saunders of Soho Square, London, one of the
preeminent cabinet-makers of the 1750s and
60s, who was supplying furniture to Holkham
Hall (Norfolk), Woburn Abbey (Bedfordshire)
and Petworth House (West Sussex). The leg
pattern corresponds closely to that on a suite
of seat furniture supplied in 1756 for the Earl of
Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk by the Soho
frm of Messrs Paul Saunders and George Smith
Bradshaw and described by them as being ‘richly
carved to match a pattern’ (see R. Edwards, The
Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London,
1964, p.144, fg. 108; and J.Cornforth, ‘French
Style, English Mood’, Country Life, 1 October 1992,
p.80).
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