An attractive pair of George III side tables with red faux-marble tops, finely carved and fluted lime-washed legs and with the friezes veneered in mahogany. This design of breakfront side tables with bowed corners and carved and fluted legs was made by cabinet makers in the late 18th century: see Lindsay Boynton Gillow Furnure Designs plates 86 and 90 and Clifford Musgrave plates 132, 134 & 137. This pair of tables are thought to have come from a house in Ireland. When we bought them, they had been dipped in a caustic tank some years earlier; the legs had small remains of of white paint but we liked the old pine lime-wash colour they had acquired. The tops had a later coat of cream coloured paint; underneath this there were the remains of a red layer and this is why we chose a red faux marble to finish the tops.

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