Table at Curated Auctions displays Rothschild and Mentmore connection
Mentmore (Towers) in Buckinghamshire was built in 1852-4 by Sir Joseph Paxton – creator of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition – and Paxton’s son-in-law GH Stokes for Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild.
The Victorian centre table with circular ebony veneered top offered in London on June 28 was most …