Side table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1760 - 1820
Materials
Pine and paint, white marble slab veneered with marbles and hardstones including onyx, verde antico, brocatelle, breccia, porphyry, agate, lapis lazuli
Measurements
82.5 x 170 x 85 cm
Place of origin
Rome
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 532966
Summary
A Chinese style side table, English, circa 1820, the specimen marble top, Rome, circa 1760. The table is painted and grained pine with blind fretted legs, carved dentil frieze and pierced brackets with acanthus leaf carving. The top veneered with Onyx marble and mounted with a border of Verde antico and showing different kinds of marbles and stones assembled and veneered in regular geometric lozenges. Specimen table top were extremely popular as the vogue for the Grand Tour brought many rich foreigners to Rome. Tables of this sort were also made in Florence, Naples and even Spain and later in England. A pair of verde antico marble tops were acquired by George Lucy (died in 1786) during his Grand Tour and sent from Rome the same year, in 1758 as reported by Mary Elizabeth Lucy. The present table top was most probably acquired on the same occasion. Related to NT 533042 and NT 532967.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.