Pier table
Category
Furniture
Date
1837 - 1901
Materials
beechwood & marble
Measurements
980 x 970 mm
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Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 288114.1
Summary
One of a pair of Victorian gilt gesso semi-circular pier tables. White marble slabs on top and grey marble on lower tier with gilt metal fret around it. Four spiral fluted legs, squared tapered feet with flutings. Around cornice a band of vertical reeding above a frieze with relief gilt gesso decoration of interwoven bay sprigs, a ribbon in the centre and paterae above the central two legs. A mirror is fitted on the back between the two tiers.