Console table
Category
Furniture
Date
1750 - 1760
Materials
Giltwood (probably deal), gesso, Adnet marble
Measurements
90 x 148 x 48 cm
Place of origin
Turin
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 850051.4
Summary
A console table from a pair of giltwood and Adnet marble console tables and pier mirrors, Northern Italian, Turin, circa 1755 With a shaped marble top with moulded edge above a pierced and carved frieze with trellis ground and scrolling floral decoration, double C scroll cabriole legs tied by a stretcher with scroll carved cartouche.
Full description
These tables and mirrors were almost certainly bought in Italy by the Earl Bishop when he was appointed British Minister in Turin (1755-8) The elegant and finely carved giltwood console tables and pier mirrors are consistent with other mid-18th Turinese pieces. The high-hipped legs carved with rocaille relates them to examples in the Palazzo Reale, Turin. There is a similar pair in the Ickworth collection NT850066 which also were almost certainly bought in Turin by the Earl Bishop. See Viale, Mostra del Palazzo Piemontese, Vol 3, pl.60, fig. b and pl.66, fig.b.) (James Weedon 2017)
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. Acquired by the National Trust in 1956 under the auspices of the National Land Fund, later the National Heritage Memorial Fund. It is most likely that these tables and mirrors were bought by the Earl Bishop in Turin circa 1755.
References
Viale, Mostra del Palazzo Piemontese, Vol 3, pl.60, fig. b and pl.66, fig.b