Occasional table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1775
Materials
Oak carcass, tulipwood, kingwood, purpleheart, fruitwood, gilt bronze mounts
Measurements
75 x 56 x 37 cm
Place of origin
France
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Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1245972
Summary
A "table à ouvrage", French, circa 1775, with tulipwood veneer inlaid with marquetry depicting ustensils and flowers, the kidney shaped top with purpleheart and fruitwood marquetry of a musical trophy within an interlaced cartouche, surrounded by a three-quarter pierced gallery, above a tambour-front cupboard opening to three small drawers, the side with two hinged drawers released by catches, on cabriole legs joined by an undertier and terminated by foliate cast sabots.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded, but probably originally at 16 Charles Street, Mayfair, Mrs Greville's London home, and bequeathed by Margaret McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald Greville (1863-1942) with Polesden Lacey, to the National Trust, in memory of her father, William McEwan (1827-1913) in 1942. This item found on the probate inventory record for Charles Street chattels at Polesden Lacey, found in the Dining Room, page 13.