A Very Good Mid-18thC Dolphin Carved Tilt-Top Tripod Table c.1760 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope One of the feet is

One of the feet is detached slightly form the base

Martin would have preferred to escape predators by swimming into a crevice

The cost of the work came to over £150

English craftsmen of the 19th century originated the hairy paw style after seeing what the Romans did with animal feet with excavated ruins revealing hairy paw antiquities

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A Very Good Mid-18thC Dolphin Carved Tilt-Top Tripod Table c.1760 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope One of the feet isOrigin: English Period: George II Provenance: The Estate of the late Antonia Cole, formerly of Wyld Court, Hawkchurch Date: c. 1760 Height: 31. 5 Diameter: 31. 5 Width & Depth at Legs: 25 The exceptional quality tilt top tripod table in fine mahogany, having a gadrooned dished moulded circular tilt top raised on a handsomely carved support formed as a scalloped top to three dolphins on a scrolling rococo base, above three moulded swept legs to scroll