The rectangular Portor marble top above an acanthus-carved frieze on paired massive eagle supports with spread wings and rocky plinth bases, regilt 95cm high, 184cm wide, 74cm deep
Provenance: The Hon. Claude J. Yorke, and thence by descent
This console table relates to a giltwood table with a rectangular black marble top inlaid with pietre dure created by William Kent (1685-1748) for the 'Lords Dressing Room and Closet' (now the Blue Velvet Room) at Chiswick House, London, in c. 1727-32, for Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington; it is now at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire (illustrated ed. S. Soros, William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 495, fig. 18.37). Another pair of similar tables with eagle supports, attributed to Kent, is in the collection of the National Trust at Hatchlands Park, Surrey
