Pier table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1740
Materials
Carved and gilded softwood, Portor marble
Measurements
73 x 111 x 57 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485367.2
Summary
A giltwood pier table or console, from a pair, circa 1740, possibly English or French, the Portor marble top above a frieze with acanthus foliage centred by a pierced shell, flanked to each side by a scrolling leg headed by a bearded man to one side and a young man to the other, the scroll feet are joined by a serpentine stretcher with a pierced shell.
Provenance
By descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.