Serving table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1790
Materials
Mahogany, softwood, brass
Measurements
79.5 x 230 x 80.9 cm
Place of origin
England
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Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire
NT 494401
Summary
A mahogany serving table, or sideboard, English, circa 1790. The mahogany-veneered rectangular top fitted to its rear edge with a brass gallery raised on three baluster-cast posts fitted with brass pineapple finials and a two candle branches. The table's frieze fluted and with a circular paterae to the block at the head of each of the six tapering square-section and fluted legs with moulded block feet.
Provenance
Listed as the 'large mahogany sideboard' listed in the inventory taken at Canons Ashby in 1819 and again as a 'mahog[an]y sideboard' in 1846. Thence presumably by descent and purchased by the National Trust from the sale of the contents of Canons Ashby held by Berry Bros. of Brackley on 4th July 1980 [Lot 283].
References
Stobart, J., 'Inventories and the Changing Furnishings of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, 1717 - 1819' in Regional Furniture, XXVII (2013), 1 - 43, 41