Each with bowed white marble top above fluted and foliate carved frieze on moulded square tapering supports headed by rams'-heads, the mirrored backs applied with foliate scrolls, on simulated breche violette marble bases, regilt, refreshments to the decoration, later mirror-plates, the applied decoration to mirror plates possibly original
35¹⁄₂ in. (90 cm.) high; 39¹⁄₂ in. (100 cm.) wide; 18¹⁄₂ in. (47 cm.) deep

The Hon. Mrs Daisy Fellowes, Donnington Grove, Newbury, Berkshire.
The Property of a Gentleman from the collection of the late Hon. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes; Christie's, London, 24 April 1980, lot 120 (£3,000).

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THE HON MRS DAISY FELLOWES
Editor of Harper's Bazaar and dubbed by Vogue the best dressed woman in the world, Daisy Fellowes epitomised good taste between the thirties and her death in 1962. The daughter of the duc Decazes, she married firstly Prince Jean de Broglie and secondly in 1919 the Hon. Reginald Fellowes (1884-1953), second son of the second Baron de Ramsey. She was also American by descent, being the granddaughter of Isaac Singer. Among her various homes in London, Paris and Geneva, was Donnington Grove, Berkshire, built in the Gothick style in the 1760s by John Chute and childhood home to Beau Brummell. Donnington was the subject of a series of articles in Country Life in 1958, describing Fellowes’ revived Regency furnishing. The present pair of side tables were photographed in the pale pink and apple-green painted drawing-room (C. Hussey, ‘Donnington Grove, Berkshire – III’, Country Life, October 2 1958, pp. 714 – 717, fig. 3).