Console table
Category
Furniture
Date
1750 - 1760
Materials
Giltwood (probably deal), gesso, mirrored glass, Adnet marble
Place of origin
Turin
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk (Accredited Museum)
On show at
Ickworth, Suffolk, East of England, National Trust
NT 850051
Summary
A pair of giltwood and Adnet marble console tables and pier mirrors, Northern Italian, Turin, circa 1755 The mirror with a moulded cornice and cartouche with an inset painted panel of figures in a landscape, the cartouche frame carved with scrolling foliage and rocaille decoration surmounted by pierced and carved floral vase and garland, the mirror panel below within a multi layered moulded frame carved with repeating detail. The corners carved with further scroll work and with a floral spray to the center. The console table with an shaped marble top with moulded edge above a pierced and carved frieze with trellis ground and scrolling floral decoration, double C scroll cabriole legs tied by a stretcher with scroll carved cartouche.
Full description
These tables and mirrors were almost certainly bought in Italy by the Earl Bishop when he was appointed British Minister in Turin (1755-8) The elegant and finely carved giltwood console tables and pier mirrors are consistent with other mid-18th Turinese pieces. The high-hipped legs carved with rocaille relates them to examples in the Palazzo Reale, Turin. There is a similar pair in the Ickworth collection NT850066 which also were almost certainly bought in Turin by the Earl Bishop. See Viale, Mostra del Palazzo Piemontese, Vol 3, pl.60, fig. b and pl.66, fig.b.) (James Weedon 2017)
References
Viale, Mostra del Palazzo Piemontese, Vol 3, pl.60, fig. b and pl.66, fig.b