Side table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Rosewood, softwood, paint, metal
Measurements
86.7 x 145.2 x 69.7 cm
Place of origin
Italy
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Melford Hall, Suffolk
NT 926550.2
Summary
An ebonized and rosewood side table or stand, Italian, late 18th century. Acting as a stand for NT 926550.1, which is a Neapolitan cabinet. The stand with rosewood top with moulded edge, on an ebonized base with a tablet-centred frieze carved with a Bacchic mask and fruit and flowers. The legs tapering and square-section, and with upper waisted frieze carved with flutes, the legs carved with further flowers and foliage and with tapering feet. -- Later made - or adapted - to support the early to mid-17th century table cabinet which it now supports. With curving metal braces to the underside. It is possible that the rosewood top is associated with the base.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded, but part of the Hyde Parker collection and by descent to Sir Richard Hyde Parker, 12th Bt. (b. 1937). Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in 1960.