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Library Table

1800-1820 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
England (made)

Returned from loan to Bodelwyddan Castle, National Portrait Gallery, Rhyl, May 2017.


Object details

Categories
Furniture
Woodwork
Interiors
Object type
Library table
Parts
This object consists of 11 parts.

  • Top
  • Key
  • Pedestal
  • Pedestal
  • Small Drawer
  • Small Drawer
  • Small Drawer
  • Small Drawer
  • Large Drawer
  • Large Drawer
  • Base
Materials and techniques
Mahogany, veneered with sabicu wood. Applied carvings also in sabicu.
Mahogany
Sabicu
Veneered
Carving
Brief description
Library table, mahogany veneered with sabicu wood, England, 1800-1810 (RF: 88/530)
Physical description
Library table: Mahogany veneered with sabicu wood, with applied carvings also in sabicu. Of pedestal form, either pedestal having on both sides a cupboard door, all of them with an applied carving representing the staff of Aesculapius. The cupboard doors are flanked by caryatid figures supporting the frieze, carved in relief with emblems symbolic of Architecture, Music, Comedy, Tragedy, Peace, War, Medicine and Literature. The panels at both ends have applied carvings of two female figures in classical dress joining hands over a lyre with a wreath. The frieze, which contains three drawers on either side, is decorated in applied carving with foliage, turned round a rod punctuated at intervals by rosettes. The top covered with green morocco decorated with gilt tooling.
Dimensions
  • Height: 78.7cm
  • Length: 245cm
  • Width: 137cm
Dimensions taken from paper records - not checked on object.
Style
Regency
Object history
Purchased by the V&A from Mrs J.A.P Wyatt of Billingshurst, Sussex, for £175.

Acquisition Registered File: 38/2172
Historical context
A large bookcase with similar carved ornament and apparently by the same maker at Chatsworth (Duke of Devonshire) 1964.
Subjects depicted
Women
Figures
Aesclepius
Summary
Returned from loan to Bodelwyddan Castle, National Portrait Gallery, Rhyl, May 2017.
Bibliographic references
  • p. 260, fig. 48. D.E.F. Vol. III
  • p. 120, fig. 126. Jourdain, Regency Furniture
Collection
Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number
W.28:1, 2-1938

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O299333/library-table-unknown/
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