Pier table
possibly Henry Thomas [Enrico] Peters (1793-1852)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1825
Materials
Rosewood, pine, gesso, gilt, giltwood
Measurements
90 x 159 x 40.5 cm
Place of origin
Genoa
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608113.1
Summary
A giltwood and rosewood pier table, Genoa, possibly by Henry Thomas [Enrico] Peters (1793-1852), circa 1825 - 1830. Its marble top NT 608113.2 and the large pier mirror it stands before NT 608113.3. The frieze to this table - carved with laurel and centred by a rosette - is identical to that to the console table in the Boudoir [NT 608121.1], suggesting a common maker. The table with a frieze of laurel leaves centred by a carved rosette, and with rounded corners. Raised to the front on two pairs of turned and fluted broadening columns, with a petal-carved capital and plinth. The rear supports rectangular-section pilasters and edged with egg and dart carving. All on a rosewood-veneered base with rounded front corners. Similar to a pier table, circa 1826-31, in the West Gallery of the Aglié Castle, Piedmont.
Provenance
Believed to be 3rd Lord Berwick collection: William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick (1773 - 1842). Listed in the Inventory taken at Attingham Park in 1861 (p. 95); in the Inventory taken in 1913 (p. 73); listed as an 'heirloom' in the Probate Valuation taken in 1947 (p. 11). By descent bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and partial contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877 - 1947) and transferred to the National Trust on 15th May 1953.
Makers and roles
possibly Henry Thomas [Enrico] Peters (1793-1852), cabinetmaker
References
Rowell & Burchard 2020: Christopher Rowell & Wolf Burchard, 'Italian Furniture at Attingham Park', Furniture History LVI (2020), 107-176, 160-1, Figure 61