Table
Category
Furniture
Date
1726 - 1737
Materials
Scagliola, Softwood, Gilding, Paint
Measurements
87 x 152 x 74.5 cm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 718870
Summary
Side table with a scagliola top supported by a gilt and ebonized underframe carved with a key pattern frieze, foliage apron with central masks to the front and sides and heavy scroll legs with block feet. The scagliola top is decorated with the arms of Walpole impaling Shorter surrounded by garter and decorated with a scroll pattern of flowers with scallop shells in the four corners. 1726-1737, scalgliola top probably Italian, legs probably English. It is likely that the current scagliola top was not the original.
Provenance
According to Chaloner Chute's History of The Vyne "A present from one of the Walpole Family", before 1888. By descent to Sir Charles Chute by whom given to the National Trust with The Vyne House and Estate in 1956.
References
Chute 1888 Chaloner William Chute. A History of the Vyne in Hampshire, & of persons who have at some time lived there. Winchester: Jacob & Johnson, 1888, pp.143-144.