'The Brownlow Pier Tables'
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1730
Materials
Carved softwood, painted and oil gilded, marble, stone
Measurements
89 x 150 x 72 cm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 434859.2
Summary
One of a pair of gilt wood pier tables, London, circa 1730. Each table with a veneered marble top, one in jasper and the other alabaster above a Greek key frieze with applied flower heads and a deep apron centred by two putti holding a coronet with acanthus sprays and four massive cabriole legs headed by lion's masks and with lion's paw feet. Re-gilded.
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow (b.1936) in 1984.