Side table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1755
Materials
Carved and white painted wood, marble
Measurements
86.5 x 274 x 99 cm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485380
Summary
A large sideboard table, circa 1755, in carved and white painted wood, the white Carrara marble top above a frieze with scrolls divided in three sections, each centred by a shell issuing acanthus leaves, on eight square tapering legs headed by a scroll. This large side table was commissioned by the 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763), made to match a pair of smaller side tables (NT 485379.1-2) created circa 1735 and already recorded in the Dining Room in 1750. The present table is first listed in the square dining room in 1764 as "Carv'd and Painted white to match the other two". A Further pair of side-tables (NT 485378.1-2) were made for the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) between 1777 and 1827 to complete the suite that remains in the Square Dining Room.
Provenance
This sideboard table was first recorded in the Dining Room after the death of the 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763) in 1764. Illustrated 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