Side table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1755
Materials
Fruitwood, probably pear
Measurements
83.5 cm (H); 132 cm (W); 66.5 cm (D)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 995811.3
Summary
One of a set of four fruitwood hall tables or side tables, English, circa 1755, almost certainly commissioned by John Ivory Talbot (d.1772) for the Great Hall at Lacock Abbey. Each carved in the Gothic style, with an inverted breakfront top above a blind tracery carved frieze with punch work panels, pierced quatrefoils and arcaded apron, raised on conforming square section legs and block feet.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust with the family collection of Lacock Abbey contents, in situ, from Mrs. Petronella Burnett-Brown in December 2009.