Table top
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1808
Materials
Verde antico
Measurements
5 x 137 x 61.5 cm
Place of origin
Palermo
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608163.1.2
Summary
A Verde antico marble pier table top, part of one of a pair of breakfront two-tier pier tables, of white-painted and part-water gilded poplar or lime, probably made in Palermo, Sicily, circa 1808. The table NT 608163.2.1 and its matching marble shelf NT 608163.2.2. With straight edge and concave front corners.
Provenance
Probably 3rd Lord Berwick collection: William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick (1773-1842). Probably acquired by the 3rd Lord Berwick, who had been in Italy as British envoy and ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies. 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, 134, 170 (fn. 124 & 125) Figure 32 Colle 2005: Enrico Colle, Neoclassico in Italia: Arredi e Decorazioni d'Interni dal 1775 al 1800 (Milan; Mondadori Electa, 2005), pp. 54, 56, 62 and 66