Console table
possibly Henry Thomas [Enrico] Peters (1793-1852)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1825 - 1830
Materials
Giltwood, amboyna, deal
Measurements
90 x 142 x 33 cm
Place of origin
Genoa
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608121.1
Summary
A giltwood and amboyna console table, Genoa, possibly by Henry Thomas [Enrico] Peters (1793-1852), circa 1825 - 1830. Its marble top NT 608121.2 and the large pier mirror it stands before NT 608121.3. The frieze to this table - carved with laurel and centred by a rosette - is identical to that to the console table in the Sultana Room [NT 608113.1], suggesting a common maker. The table topped by a frieze carved with laurel leaves and centred by a carved rosette. Raised to the front on a pair of cornucopia-shaped supports carved with shells, scrolls and foliage and plain pilaster rear supports. All on an amboyna-veneered plinth base with projecting ends with moulded and lotus-carved giltwood edge. -- The Boudoir in which this console table stands is believed to have been completed in the 1780s for Anne Vernon, 1st Lady Berwick (1744 - 1797). The mirror, however, is probably slightly later, circa 1800 - 1820. When the contents of the room were detailed in the sale which took place in 1827 a mirror, festooned with blue and white damask drapes to match those at the window opposite, did stand on this wall. This table and its top are probably slightly later still, circa 1825 - 1830.
Provenance
Listed in the Inventory taken at Attingham Park in 1861 (p. 99), and in the inventory taken there in 1913 (p. 67). 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