Untitled
Joseph Perfetti (d. 1777)
Category
Furniture
Date
1771 (paid for)
Materials
Carved lime, deal, gesso, gold leaf, hard stones, marbles, iron
Place of origin
Marylebone
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871331
Summary
A pair of carved giltwood and marble-topped pier or side tables, made by Joseph Perfetti (fl. 1760-77) and paid for in 1771. Both having tops formed of European hardstones and marbles laid in a lozenge pattern within black stone lines and borders. The frames having an acanthus-carved moulding above friezes carved with a lattice of lozenges framing rosettes and spaced by addorsed calyx. The friezes hung with petal-filled lunettes either side of deer heads with antlers and issuing garlands of pendant husks. The legs turned and tapering, topped by a capital beneath an egg- and dart-carved moulding. The legs proper fluted and entwined with a garland of husks. On turned feet.
Provenance
Supplied by John Perfetti to John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon in 1771. Thence by descent, and accepted in part payment of death duties by HM Treasury from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877 - 1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.
Makers and roles
Joseph Perfetti (d. 1777), carver possibly Robert Adam (Kirkcaldy 1728 - London 1792), designer Joseph Perfetti (d. 1777), gilder