Lot 37
An early 18th century style white and parcel gilt decorated serpentine console table with a pietre dure marble topthe marble top attributed to J.Darmanin
11 March 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,750 inc. premium
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An early 18th century style white and parcel gilt decorated serpentine console table with a pietre dure marble top
the marble top attributed to J.Darmanin
Inlaid with a coat of arms for Admiral Sir George Nathaniel Broke Middleton, 3rd baronet of Broke Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk. and motto 'saevumque tridentem servamus' within a band inset with specimen marbles and scroll work corners with an outer border of portor marble, the base with a central cabochon and foliage flanked by pierced strapwork, on broken scroll acanthus carved cabriole legs and foliate scroll feet, the sides decorated with cabochon, strapwork and foliage,, 104cm wide, 58cm deep, 79cm high (40 1/2in wide, 22 1/2in deep, 31in high).
Inlaid with a coat of arms for Admiral Sir George Nathaniel Broke Middleton, 3rd baronet of Broke Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk. and motto 'saevumque tridentem servamus' within a band inset with specimen marbles and scroll work corners with an outer border of portor marble, the base with a central cabochon and foliage flanked by pierced strapwork, on broken scroll acanthus carved cabriole legs and foliate scroll feet, the sides decorated with cabochon, strapwork and foliage,, 104cm wide, 58cm deep, 79cm high (40 1/2in wide, 22 1/2in deep, 31in high).
Footnotes
Provenance:
Hartley Court, Berkshire
The associated pietre dure marble top depicts the arms of Admiral Sir George Nathaniel Broke Middleton, 3rd baronet of Broke Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk.
He was born 1812 and succeeded his brother Sir Philip Broke, 2nd baronet in 1855 adopting the name Broke Middleton in 1860. He died unmarried on 14 January 1888, when the baronetcy became extinct.
The crest and the scroll work strap below relate closely in style to a signed Darmanin table top sold Sotheby's New York, 16 October 2008, lot 58 and illustrated in K.Hay, Mosaic Marble Tables by J. Darmanin & Sons of Malta in Furniture History, 2010. The comparable table top bore the arms thought to those of the Baker family of Lismacue House, Tipperary Ireland and the front of the marble was inlaid DARMANIN MALTA
