Side table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1750
Materials
Painted softwood, parcel gilding, marble
Measurements
76.5 x 109.5 x 62 cm
Place of origin
Southern Germany
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206649
Summary
A white-painted and parcel-gilt side or centre table, Italian, mid-18th century. Of serpentine form, and topped by a slab of pink and white-veined marble with moulded edge. The friezes rocaille and foliate scroll-carved with gilt highlights. Raised on four moulded cabriole legs carved with cabochon and foliate scrolls.
Provenance
Listed in the Inventory taken at Wimpole at 1965 in Drawing Room No. 2 (p. 5). Visible in a photograph of the Drawing Room in the South Front published by Country Life on 7th December 1967. Date of acquisition not recorded, but probably acquired by George Bambridge (1892 - 1943) and Elsie Bambridge (1896 - 1976), who purchased a largely empty Wimpole in 1938. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Elsie Bambridge.
References
Hussey, 1967: Christopher Hussey. “Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire - II” Country Life 7 December 1967, 1466 - 1471, 1468, Figure 6