A GEORGE II OIL-GILT AND JAPANESE LACQUER PIER TABLEATTRIBUTED TO BENJAMIN GOODISON, CIRCA 1730, THE JAPANESE LACQUER 17TH CENTURYThe top inset with a rectangular Japanese black lacquer panel decorated with a central gold-toned handled bowl of flowers within a paneled nashiji border, surrounded by a giltwood molding with re-entrant corners, on a stepped frieze with carved leaves and fluted molding, above a central scrolled shell with pendant, supported on the tails of entwined dolphins on an egg-and-dart and Vitruvian scroll carved plinth, with an indecipherable fragmentary printed label, another manuscript label inscribed Studley – Staircase, one inscribed EH/3, an additional label to the back of the plinth inscribed from loft, and with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label31 1/4 in. (79.4 cm.) high, 39 in. (99.1 cm.) wide, 26 in. (66 cm.) deep