A Very Good Mid-18thC Dolphin Carved Tilt-Top Tripod Table c.1760 sub-Curios cotton ribbed socks and burgundy

cotton ribbed socks and burgundy brogues

At a fraction of the cost of an eighteenth-century example this is a very pretty and useful piece of versatile furniture

There is a possibility the figure is American due to folk art negro dolls being popular there though the uncertainty of the figures origin is part of his charm

and ‘Albrico’ to the interior

A Very Good Mid-18thC Dolphin Carved Tilt-Top Tripod Table c.1760 sub-Curios cotton ribbed socks and burgundyOrigin: 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