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Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Console Table

18th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Console table with baroque fringe, and cabriole leg supported on three baroque scroll feet; the leg flanked by palm-branches. Painted in slate blue, yellow, brownish orange, olive green and manganese purple. On the top, a fanciful landscape with flowers on rockwork, a pinnacled building and a fountain on the shore of a lake, and distant mountains. On the leg and feet, sprays of flowers and rocks of pseudo-Chinese character. Oil gilding round the edge of the fringe and on details of the supports.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours
Brief description
Console table with cabriole leg, supported by three scroll feet, tin-glazed earthenwae painted in colours, probably Le Nove, Italy, 18th century
Physical description
Console table with baroque fringe, and cabriole leg supported on three baroque scroll feet; the leg flanked by palm-branches. Painted in slate blue, yellow, brownish orange, olive green and manganese purple. On the top, a fanciful landscape with flowers on rockwork, a pinnacled building and a fountain on the shore of a lake, and distant mountains. On the leg and feet, sprays of flowers and rocks of pseudo-Chinese character. Oil gilding round the edge of the fringe and on details of the supports.
Dimensions
  • Height: 81cm (Note: conversion from inches)
  • Width: 35cm
Credit line
Given by J. H. Fitzhenry
Other number
1245 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.48-1910

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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