Eagle tables soar to £65,000 result
Despite visible condition issues, a pair of carved giltwood console tables, catalogued as c.1740 and later, sailed past modest expectations to bring £65,000 (plus 24% premium) at Dreweatts 1759 of Donnington Priory.
Carved and gilt ‘eagle’ console tables were highly fashionable in grand neo- Palladian apartments …