Marble slab
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1825
Materials
Carrara marble
Measurements
3.8 x 125 x 59 cm
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608156.2
Summary
A Carrara marble top, 19th century, demi-circular and with moulded edge. Atop NT 608156.1, a bow-fronted commode, of white-painted and parcel-gilded pine and poplar, and with ormolu mounts, after a design by Carlo Randoni (1755-1831) for Palazzo Tursi, Genoa, circa 1820-1 or 1824-7.
Provenance
3rd Lord Berwick collection: William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick (1773-1842). By descent bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
References
Rowell & Burchard 2020: Christopher Rowell & Wolf Burchard, 'Italian Furniture at Attingham Park', Furniture History LVI (2020), 107-176, 127-8, 137, and see footnotes 78 & 79 Figures 26 & 27 Drury, 1984: Martin Drury. “Italian furniture in National Trust houses.” Furniture History, vol. XX, 1984., 38-44