A George II ebonised, parcel-gilt walnut and marble side table,...

the fluted frieze, bordered with egg-and-dart mouldings and a frieze of ribbon-bound paterae, raised on eight scrolled supports carved with acanthus and shells, parcel-gilt, with volute capitals, joined by a stretcher, with a paper ink manuscript inventory label T14, with a later three-section grey-veined marble top; (with alterations, re-gilt and re-varnished)

Height 35 in., width 143 1/3 in., depth 45 1/4 in. ; Haut. 89 cm, larg. 364 cm, prof. 115 cm

Provenance:
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780–1863), as recorded in the Sculpture Gallery of Lansdowne House, London in 1819;

Thence by descent at Lansdowne House until at least 1865;

Subsequently moved to the Picture Gallery at Bowood, Wiltshire;

Sotheby's, 26 March 1920, lot 134;

M Harris & Sons, London;

Purchased on 4 April 1920 for £580 by William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925);

At Cedar Lawn, London;

Given to his son, William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme (1888–1949), with replaced top, and delivered to Thornton Manor, Merseyside on 7 September 1922;

By descent to Philip William Bryce Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme (1915–2000);

Sotheby's, The Leverhulme Collection, 26-29 June 2001, lot 179;

Sotheby's London, 7 July 2009, lot 6.