French “Vendange” Wine Tasting Table c.1880

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French “Vendange” Wine Tasting Table c.1880A superb mixed fruit wood French Vendange wine tasting table. c. 1880 With hand painted graphics and typography upon original waxed canvas linen covered table featuring heraldry, beasts and spelling Chateau Margaux Grand Vins De Bordeaux. This table is from a Vineyard in Bordeaux where typically they would be used to display the wines for the wine tasting and selling once yearly, and also for the party at the end of the grape picking Harvests. A

Mansell employed Italian glassmakers and claimed to have founded mirror manufacture in England

Their highly textured ceramic surface is reminiscent of cooled lava stone

Renowned for his influence in interior design

This elaborately carved water-gilded console

“It feels like now more than ever

These charming pair of gates originate from the Normandy area of France and are very typical of 16th Century church and courtyard doors of their time

The Angels expression is one of adoration and serenity

A mid 20th Century delicately carved Vicenza Stone Bacchante Wine-making maiden or nymph carrying grapes and vines

They depict a classical rendition 'Four Seasons'

A ethereal pale white Angel

Provenance: English collection

It is also featured in the original Handyside catalogue of 1874