A Very Good Mid-18thC Dolphin Carved Tilt-Top Tripod Table c.1760 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope the green finch

the green finch

Cairness House shows the influence of the French architects Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude Nicholas Ledoux and has many parallels with the works of Sir John Soane

The plates in the book also mention the chairs ‘canted’ tops

One of the feet is detached slightly form the base

The fluted door has had repairs to it whereby the joins have been strengthened from the inside

A Very Good Mid-18thC Dolphin Carved Tilt-Top Tripod Table c.1760 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope the green finchOrigin: English Period: George II Provenance: The Estate of the late Antonia Cole, formerly of Wyld Court, Hawkchurch Date: c. 1760 Height: 31. 5 Diameter: 31. 5 Width & Depth at Legs: 25 The exceptional quality tilt top tripod table in fine mahogany, having a gadrooned dished moulded circular tilt top raised on a handsomely carved support formed as a scalloped top to three dolphins on a scrolling rococo base, above three moulded swept legs to scroll