Untitled
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1774 (the tops) - circa 1810 (the bases)
Materials
Paint, plaster, marble, pine, ormolu, gesso, composition, gilt
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608215
Summary
A pair of side tables, with scagliola table tops, Rome, circa 1774. The bases of giltwood, circa 1800 - 1830, probably English. NT 608215.2.2 signed ‘Gio.P[?]os[?]agni Roma’. The tops of painted plaster on a pine substructure, with black marble and ormolu leaf-cast border, and with a central painted oval scene. The bases with fluted friezes and tapering square-section legs. The ends of the friezes mounted with composition oval plaques. The feet carved with acanthus and with moulded collars.
Provenance
The tops ordered by Robert Clive, Lord Clive of Plassey (1725 - 1774) from James Byres, dealer in Rome, in 1774 for his house of Claremont, Surrey. Purchased by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877 - 1947) at the sale of the contents of Walcot by Harrods on 22nd - 26th July 1929 (Lot 647). Thence bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by 8th Lord Berwick on 15th May 1953.
References
Rowell 2001: Christopher Rowell, '"That delightful and magnificent villa”: Clive of India’s Claremont and its collections', Apollo, April 2001, pp. 14-22 Rowell & Burchard 2020: Christopher Rowell & Wolf Burchard, 'Italian Furniture at Attingham Park', Furniture History LVI (2020), 107-176, 162-3, Figures 62 & 63