Console
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1820
Materials
Gilt and patinated bronze, nero e bianco inlaid marble
Measurements
84 x 105 x 51 cm
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Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 137634.1
Summary
A Regency gilt and patinated bronze flying console, circa 1820, with scrolling cornucopiae and snake supports surmounted by a serpentine nero e bianco inlaid marble top. These consoles are thought to have been introduced by the architect Humphry Repton (1752-1818) who undertook some work at Uppark, notably the re-arrangement of the dining room circa 1813 where a set of four comparable bronze and marble consoles were fitted to the walls (NT 137736.1-4).
Provenance
by descent; given to the National Trust in 1954 with the house and some of its contents by Admiral the Hon. Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh.