Side table
Category
Furniture
Date
1777 - 1827
Materials
Carved wood, white painted, marble
Measurements
81.4 x 193 x 73 cm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485378.1
Summary
A side-table, from a pair, in carved and white painted wood, the white Carrara marble top above a frieze with scrolls centred by a shell issuing acanthus leaves, on five square tapering legs. They were commissioned by the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) between 1777 and 1827 when one appears on a watercolour view of the square dining room by J.M.W Turner (1775-1851) . The present pair was made to complete an existing suite that stood in the Square Dining Room comprising a pair of side-tables (NT 485379.1-2) recorded in the 1750 inventory and a large sideboard (NT 485380), created later to match the first pair, listed in the square dining room in 1764.
Provenance
Most probably commissioned by the 3rd Earl of Egremont. One can be seen on a watercolour view of the square dining room by J.M.W Turner and dated 1827 (Petworth House). Listed together with the rest of the suite in the Petworth House 1837 inventory. 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.
References
Rowell 2012 : Christopher Rowell, Petworth, The People and the Place, Scala, 2012