Console table
manner of William Kent (Bridlington 1685 - London 1748)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1740
Materials
Paint, parcel gilt, pine, marble
Measurements
86 x 128 x 61 cm
Order this imageCollection
Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland
NT 1276818.2
Summary
One of a pair of carved, painted and parcel-gilt side or console tables, English, in the manner of William Kent, circa 1740, each with veined white marble slab top, above a frieze of Vitruvian scroll below an egg and dart border and with shells on the angles, hung to the front with a boldly carved lion mask, raised on foliate carved angled scroll legs carved with hanging paws to the inside surface and terminating in paw feet, the marble tops possibly associated.
Makers and roles
manner of William Kent (Bridlington 1685 - London 1748), designer