EARLY 19TH CENTURY CENTURY, THE TOP BY JAMES MATTHEWS, BRIGHTON

The rectangular simulated Siena marble top supported by a pair of acanthus-clasped winged-panther monopodia, the underside with two paper labels in Lord Snowdon's hand 'Mr Antony Armstrong-Jones/20 Pimlico Road/S.W.1' and the top engraved 'J. Matthews/ 130 London Road/ Brighton 1817', traces of previous gilding
34¹⁄₂ in. (88 cm.) high; 48¹⁄₂ in. (123 cm.) wide; 14¹⁄₄ in. (36 cm.) deep

Probably Colonel and Mrs Leonard Messel, Nymans House, Sussex, and by descent.
With Lord Snowdon at Albany, Piccadilly and later at his studio at 20 Pimlico Road, London.

R. Muir, ‘Double Exposure: Lord Snowdon’s Kensington Villa’, World of Interiors, January 2009, p. 147, illustrated in the entrance hall.

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