The grey veined canted and moulded breakfront marble top above two conformingly-shaped drawers decorated sans-traverse with inlaid key-pattern banding and with ribbon-tied husk garland loose-ring handles and escutcheons, the shaped apron with foliate-cast mount centred by lion's mask, the sides similarly inlaid, flanked by faux-fluted angles on cabriole legs ending in foliate-cast scrolled sabots
33¹⁄₂ in. (85 cm.) high; 47¹⁄₄ in. (120 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

Acquired by George Byng M.P. (1764-1847) for Wrotham Park;
By descent to his nephew George Stevens Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford, the son of John Byng, created 1st Earl of Strafford of the third creation;
Thence by descent to the 6th Earl of Strafford.

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Lot Essay

Pale grey marble veined in white was commonly used in Holland for the tops of French-style furniture in the second half of the 18th century. As with the present lot, many of these tops would have a simply canted and moulded edge. A transitional commode with a similar top made in Amsterdam is illustrated Reinier Baarsen, Paris 1650-1900 Decorative Arts in the Rijksmuseum, Rijksmuseum, 2013, p.337.