Side table
Category
Furniture
Date
1750 - 1770
Materials
Mahogany and deal
Measurements
80 x 159.5 x 79 cm
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Blickling Hall, Norfolk (Accredited Museum)
On show at
Blickling Hall, Norfolk, East of England, National Trust
NT 354211
Summary
A mahogany and mahogany cross banded side table, English, circa 1760. With a later rectangular top above a straight frieze and four acanthus carved cabriole legs and pad feet. The carcass made from deal The top for this table has been replaced with a cross banded mahogany top, it may well have originally had a marble top. Probably supplied by Frank Partridge.
Full description
Founded in 1900 by the present Frank Partridge’s great grandfather, the business opened a gallery almost opposite Christie’s in King Street, dealing in the very finest English and French furniture and Chinese porcelain. When these premises were bombed in 1939 Frank Partridge Snr moved his business to the famous “Partridge” building opposite Sotheby’s in New Bond Street and in circa 1912 opened a shop in New York, on Fifth Avenue. During this period, Partridge’s received the Royal Warrant as Purveyors of Fine Art to Queen Mary, a frequent visitor to the gallery. Records in the archive of the Burrell Collection show that one of Partridge's earliest customers was the great art collector, William Hesketh Lever (1851-1925) the first Lord Leverhulme. Lord Lever (as he later became known) purchased chinese porcelain from Partridge for over twenty years. Another important early client was Philip Kerr, the 11th Marquess of Lothian. Lord Lothian and Partridge were friends and helped to furnish Blickling hall in the 1930s.
Provenance
Part of the Lothian Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust by Philip, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940).