Tea table
Paolo Antonio Paroletto
Category
Silver
Date
c. 1756
Materials
Silver
Measurements
3.8 x 84.1 x 58.1 cm
Place of origin
Turin
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 852116.2
Summary
One of two tea tables, silver, by Paolo Antonio Paroletto, Turin, circa 1756. The oblong table is raised with a pulvinating, shaped rim and indented corners and a cast and applied gadroon border. Around the edge of the well of the table is an engraved band of scrollwork emanating from four grotesque masks, one at the centre of each side. Heraldry: The centre of each table is engraved with the quartered shield, supporters and motto of the 2nd Earl of Bristol in an ermine mantling and beneath an earl’s coronet. The style of engraving is Italian (see NT 852078).
Full description
For further detail see the master object entry.
Provenance
George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol (1721-75); by descent to the 4th Marquess of Bristol (1863-1951); accepted by the Treasury in lieu of death duties in 1956 and transferred to the National Trust.
Credit line
Ickworth, the Bristol Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Underside: Hallmark: the Turin mint mark of a cross of Savoy with a couped cross on top in a shield below a crown enclosing a trefoil (Augusto Bargoni, ‘Argenti’ in volume 3 of Vittorio Viale (ed.), Mostra del Barocco Piemontese, Turin 1963, p. 15, no. 79, ill.) and the maker’s mark of Paolo Antonio Paraletto (c. 1715–after 1759), St Francis Xavier in the form of a pilgrim above the letters ‘P P A’ (Gianfranco Fina & Luca Mana, Argenti Sabauda del XVIII Secolo, 2012, pp. 235-6, fig. 43). Underside: ‘N2 on 238 6/di [struck through][/] 235=6’
Makers and roles
Paolo Antonio Paroletto, goldsmith