PAIR OF ITALIAN GILTWOOD AND BRECCE PERNICE MARBLE TOPPED SIDE TABLES
CIRCA 1770
£275,200
Auction: Select Property from Penicuik House, Midlothian - 27th March 2024 at 10am
Description
the thick rectangular mottled brecce pernice marble tops above pierced friezes centred by a pair of carved dolphin masks, their entwined tails extending to the scrolling open friezes, raised on foliate carved and sea serpent wrapped cabriole legs, ending in scrolled feet (2)
Dimensions
157cm wide, 91cm high, 82cm deep
Provenance
Penicuik House, Midlothian. Thence by descent
Footnote
Note: This remarkably lively pair of giltwood side tables, with their somewhat menacing dolphins or sea serpents, do not appear in the Penicuik papers or invoices, but were certainly saved from the fire in 1899, residing in the new Penicuik House since its conversion from a stable block. The impressively thick brecce pernice marble slabs may have been part of the shipment of marble slabs shipped from Rome in the late 1760s, arranged by John Baxter the Younger, son of Penicuiks chief architect John Baxter.