Moulded, carved and oil-gilded pine; Portor marble top.
81 cm. (31 7/8 in.); W. 190 cm. (74 ¾ in.); D. 81.5 cm. (32 in.).
Provenance: Collection of Edward George Villiers Stanley (1865-1948), 17th Earl of Derby, and of his wife, Alice Maud Olivia Montagu (1862-1957), Countess of Derby, daughter of the 7th Duke of Manchester, and Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925), consort of King Edouard VII of England (1841-1910) from 1901 to 1910, in their residence at Coworth Park, Sunningdale, near Ascot, in the Royal County of Berkshire, close to Windsor Castle, southwest of London; Sold in the posthumous sale of the Countess of Derby: Catalogue of the contents of Coworth Park, Sunningdale, Berks., sold by order of the beneficiaries of the late Alice, Countess of Derby, including old pictures and engravings, English and French 18th century furniture, decorative China en dinner services, a fine Savonnerie carpet, eastern rugs and carpets, and the household furnishings and appointments, Christie, Manson & Woods, in London, on 14 and 15 October 1957, lot n° 127; Collection of Lady Rosemary Margaret d’Avigdor-Goldsmid (1910-1997), née Nicholl, wife of Sir Henry Joseph d’Avigdor-Goldsmid (1909-1976), 2nd Baronet; sold at Sotheby’s in London, on 10 July 1998, lot n° 11, acquired at the sale by Ann and Gordon Getty; Collection of the renown philanthropist, publisher and paleoanthropologist Ann Getty (1941-2020), née Gilbert, and her husband, the American oil magnate Gordon Peter Getty (b. 1933), in New York.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Christopher Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, 2 vols., 1978, vol. II, p. 353-356, cat. n° 446; Peter Thornton, “Soane’s Kent Tables”, Furniture History, vol. XXIX, 1993, p. 59-65; The Treasure houses of Britain: five hundred years of private patronage and art collecting, exhibition, Washington, 1985, p. 234, cat. n° 155.
