Table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1600 - circa 1899
Materials
Carved walnut
Measurements
87 x 216 x 92 cm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485425
Summary
A large walnut centre table, parts seventeenth century, probably assembled in the nineteenth century, the top made in England, the supports and stretcher probably Italian, each end support centred by a cartouche carved with the Percy crescent flanked by busts of Chimeras in the manner of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (1510–1584) , on paw feet, joined by a foliate carved stretcher. A closely comparable table, described as nineteenth century, is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and comes from the Robert Lehman Collection (inv.1975.1.1954).
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.