Table base
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1830
Materials
Beech, deal, paint, gesso, gilt
Measurements
88 x 126.5 x 109.8 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608148.1
Summary
A painted and parcel-gilt table base, made in England around 1830. The base supports NT 608148.2 a pietre dure table top, Rome, circa 1575-1600 with two later inserted landscape vignettes, probably made in Florence, early 17th century. The table base is made of beech and painted white. It is decorated on each edge with sunken friezes centred by a gilt oval rosette between sprays of leaves. The upper leg blocks are carved with a floral patera. The legs are ball-turned, tapering and fluted and terminate in bun feet. The table was probably made to match the other white-painted and parcel-gilt furniture brought to Attingham Park in the 1830s by William Noel-Hill, 3rd Lord Berwick (1773 - 1842).
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). 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
Rowell & Burchard 2020: Christopher Rowell & Wolf Burchard, 'Italian Furniture at Attingham Park', Furniture History LVI (2020), 107-176, 159-60, Figure 58