Console table
Mr. Barby (fl.c.1960)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1860
Materials
Giltwood, simulated marble
Measurements
82 x 173 x 54 cm
Place of origin
France
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206626
Summary
A giltwood console table, with simulated marble top, French or English, mid-19th century. The serpentine simulated marble top above foliate and scroll-pierced aprons. Raised on a pair of cabochon, foliate and scroll-carved legs with scroll feet. The top painted to simulate marble in the late 1950s by Mr. Barby the 'marbelising man'.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded, but reputedly this table belonged to Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden (1844 – 1930) and was probably left at Wimpole when his son, the 7th Viscount Clifden, moved to Lanhydrock. Eventually purchased by George Bambridge (1892 - 1943) and Elsie Bambridge (1896 - 1976) in the 1950s. Listed in the Inventory taken at Wimpole in 1965 in Drawing Room No. I (p. 4). Drawing Room No. I is now called the Ante-Room. Visible in a photograph of the Drawing Room in the South Front published by Country Life on 7th December 1967. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Elsie Bambridge.
Makers and roles
Mr. Barby (fl.c.1960), painter
References
Hussey, 1967: Christopher Hussey. “Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire - II” Country Life 7 December 1967, 1466 - 1471, 1468, Figure 5