Object Detail
Description
table, centre, circular, with figured marble top, pedestal is heavily carved with lion's heads at the knee of each of the three legs. The legs terminate with large carved lion's paw feet. An Anglo Indian Mahogany Centre Table. The circular white marble top above a plain frieze, the scrolled triform base issuing carved rampant lions resting on scrolled claw and ball feet. Apollo's palms wrap the centre table's drum tip and tripod pillar, and the latter terminates in bacchic lions that emerge from palm flowered volutes and are recumbent on a reed-gadrooned and hollow sided 'alter' plinth supported on lions paws, its pillar relates to the antique style promoted by Thomas Hopes 'Household furniture and Interior Decoration' 1807 and in particular to his tripod pattern that was inspired by an Etruscan alter in the Borghese collection (pl. XXIV no. 6). The table's ornament also relates to patterns published in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808 while the adorned lions relate to those featured in a George IV silver pattern, for a tripod centre piece candelabrum after the Roman fashion which survives from the archives of the court goldsmiths Messrs Rundell, Bridge & Rundell preserved at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (the drawings are discussed C. Oman 'the firm of Rundell, Bridge & Rundell', Apollo, March 1966 pp. 174-1830)
Maker and role
furniture maker: unknown
Production place
Mysuru, India
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Production date
circa 1840
Media description
Mahogany, figured marble
Measurements
750 x dia 1800 mm
Credit line
Foundation Collection, 1989
Project credit line
This digital record has been made available on TJC Collection Online through a significant donation from the OPENING DOORS fund, the generous support of The Friends of The Johnston Collection, and Digitisation Champion Christine Bell
Accession number
A0016
TJC reference number
16
