Dining room pedestal
Category
Furniture
Date
1765 - 1775
Materials
Mahogany, Ormolu, Tin
Measurements
750 x 480 x 450 mm; 340 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Basildon Park, Berkshire
NT 266661.2
Summary
A mahogany dining room pedestal and ormolu mounted urn, English, circa 1765-1775, one of a pair. The urn fitted with a knopped lid mounted with a pineapple finial above a band of fluting centred by a carved stellar (or sunburst) patera and fitted at either end with an unusual up-carving handle with satyr mask backplate cast in ormolu, on a circular foot. The pedestal topped by an inset platform carved to its edge with fluting and fitted with a metal tap or spigot, above a further band of fluting. This pedestal fitted with a partitioned drawer containgin a removable tin-lined container for ice, above a door (opening along the line of the upper radius of the patera surround) containing a cupboard for a chamber pot fronted by a tambour door and a further deeper drawer below. On a moulded plinth.
Provenance
Ham House, near Richmond; Lord and Lady Iliffe, Basildon Park, Berkshire; purchased by the National Trust, 1978