The Stourhead Music Room Corner Tables, 1804
Thomas Chippendale II (1749 - 1822)
Category
Furniture
Date
1804
Materials
Painted and parcel gilt deal, marble
Measurements
92.2 x 108.2 x 61.6 cm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 731554
Summary
A pair of white painted and parcel gilt marble topped bow front corner tables, by Thomas Chippendale the Younger (1749-1822) London 1804. Commissioned for the Music Room at Stourhead by Sir Richard Colt Hoare. The triangular statuary white marble top with bowed front edge above a stand with an applied trellis design frieze and three square section tapered legs tied by a shelf stretcher and terminating on ball feet.
Full description
Chippendale’s account dated May 8th 1804: ’2 corner tables for the Music Room with shelves and bottom, carved goloss in legs gilt in burnished gold’ £15 and ‘2 statuary marble slabs for ditto’ £18-2- Thomas Chippendale the Younger at Stourhead Sir Richard Colt Hoare employed Thomas Chippendale the Younger (1749-1822) from 1795 to 1822 to supply furniture and furnishings for Stourhead in Wiltshire. The accounts submitted for his work are the largest known archive relating to Chippendale’s work. Out of the 163 pieces of furniture described in the accounts, 103 are still in the house, mostly in the rooms for which they were made. There was a fire in 1902 which destroyed the central part of Stourhead but fortunately most of the pictures and furniture from the ground floor were saved, the majority of the contents of the upper floors were destroyed. Chippendale the Younger worked with his father Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779) for many years before the latter died. Much of the work he produced in the 1780s and 1790s continued the styles and techniques associated with the Chippendale firm. During these years he was completing or continuing commissions that the firm had been involved with including Harewood house, Nostell Priory, and Burton Constable amongst others. The furniture supplied for Stourhead shows the continued high quality and attention to detail that was expected from the Chippendale workshops, linked with simplicity of decoration and clarity of line. For further discussion and extensive published research see: Goodison, Judith ‘The life and work of Thomas Chippendale Junior’ PWP 2017 Goodison, Judith ‘Thomas Chippendale the Younger at Stourhead’ Furniture History Society 2005 (Vol. 41) pp. 57-116 Gilbert, Christopher ‘The life and work of Thomas Chippendale’ London 1978 Vol.1 pp.235, 267 Beard, Geoffrey & Gilbert, Christopher ‘The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840’ Furniture History Society 1986 pg.169 James Weedon (January 2018)
Provenance
Commissioned by Sir Richard Colt Hoare from Thomas Chippendale the Younger in 1804 for the Music Room at Stourhead. Chippendale’s account dated May 8th 1804: ’2 corner tables for the Music Room with shelves and bottom, carved goloss in legs gilt in burnished gold’ £15 and ‘2 statuary marble slabs for ditto’ £18-2-
Makers and roles
Thomas Chippendale II (1749 - 1822), cabinet maker
References
Goodison, 2005: Judith Goodison. “Thomas Chippendale the younger at Stourhead.” Furniture History 31 (2005): pp.57-116, pp. 57-116 Gilbert, 1978: Christopher Gilbert. The life and work of Thomas Chippendale. London: Studio Vista: Christie’s, 1978., pp. 235, 267 Beard and Gilbert, 1986: Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert (ed), Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, pg.169 Goodison, 2017: Judith Goodison, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale Junior, PWP London & New York 2017