Dining room urn and pedestal
possibly James Wyatt (Staffordshire 1746 - Marlborough 1813)
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, brass, ormolu, gilt, paint
Measurements
1880 mm (Height); 435 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Basildon Park, Berkshire
NT 266649.1
Summary
A painted and parcel-gilded dining room pedestal and urn, circa 1770, possibly designed by James Wyatt (1746-1813) or by Robert Adam (1728-1792), and with similarities to a pair designed by Adam and made by John Linnell (1729-1796) for Osterley Park. One of a pair. The urn of ovoid form with beading to the neck and rising scroll-ended ormolu handles. The body of the urn topped by a band of leafy acanthus above a patera, and bands of guilloche and flutes, and fitted with a false metal tap or spigot. On a spreading circular foot. The cylindrical pedestal cupboard with carved mouldings above a frieze carved with alternating bucrania and paterae, joined by suspended husk garlands. All above a hinged door carved with a patera and enclosing shelves and a reserve for a brazier for warming plates. On a cylindrical plinth base topped by a water leaf-carved moulding. The urns later painted in blue, the pedestals dark brown. Highlighted throughout with gilding and white paint.
Provenance
Fawley Court, Buckinghamshire; H. B. Baverstock & Son, Contents of the Mansion and Estate Effects of Fawley Court, 14 July, 1952 [Lot 9]; Roger Warner (£235); Mallet; Lord and Lady Iliffe, Basildon Park, Berkshire; purchased by the National Trust, 1978
Makers and roles
possibly James Wyatt (Staffordshire 1746 - Marlborough 1813), designer possibly Robert Adam (Kirkcaldy 1728 - London 1792), designer
References
Warner 2003: Roger Warner, ‘Memoirs of a Twentieth Century Antique Dealer’, Regional Furniture, XVII (2003), pp.114-115; 121