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Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Specimen woods, pine, ebonized beech, brass
Place of origin
India
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206699
Summary
A pair of ebonized, parquetry and ormolu-mounted pedestal tables, Anglo-Indian/Ceylonese, mid-19th century. Both having a square top veneered in specimen woods in a parquetry pattern, and crossbanded in ebonized wood. Raised on a baluster- and ring-turned column with a gadrooned brass lower collar on a concave-side triangular base with scroll feet and brass mounts in the form of crescent moons and sunburst bosses.
Provenance
One listed in the Inventory taken at Wimpole in 1965 in the Chancellor's Dressing Room (p. 8), the other in the Main Staircase, Vestibule (p. 7). 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.