Untitled
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1575 (the top) - circa 1830 (the base)
Materials
Beechwood, deal, paint, gesso, gilt, marbles, semi-precious stones
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608148
Summary
A pietre dure table top, Rome, circa 1575-1600 with two later inserted landscape vignettes, probably made in Florence, circa 1607-8. On an English white-painted and parcel-gilt table base, circa 1830.
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 1913 (p. 60). The table base probably made in England to support the Italian top. Thence by descent and 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.
References
Jervis and Dodd 2015 Simon Swynfen Jervis and Dudley Dodd, Roman Splendour, English Arcadia: the English taste for pietre dure and the Sixtus Cabinet at Stourhead, 2015, 31 Rowell & Burchard 2020: Christopher Rowell & Wolf Burchard, 'Italian Furniture at Attingham Park', Furniture History LVI (2020), 107-176, 159-60, Figures 58-60