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Side table

Ref: 5
  • Designer

    Designed by Sir John Soane (1753-1837)

  • Detail

    Ebonised mahogany and ivory, the painted top restored

    92 x 142 x 45 cm

    English (presumably London), circa 1805-06

  • Provenance

    1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753-1813), and by descent; Christie and Manson, Catalogue of the Contents of Stowe House, thirty-third day’s sale, 28 September 1848, lot 2509 (a pair); […]; acquired ‘off the pavement in Portobello Road, on a wet Saturday afternoon’ by Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read; acquired Sotheby’s Belgravia, 1 November 1972, lot 102; Clive and Jane Wainwright

  • Exhibited

    Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art: The Handley-Read Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 4 March – 30 April 1972, no. B2 (unattributed); the present table or its pair, now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (W.32-1972)

    London World City, Villa Hugel, Essen, 4 June – 8 November 1992, no. 312

    Giving the Past a Future: The Work of the World Monument Fund, Sir John Soane’s Museum, October 2012-January 2013

    Der Traum vom Glück: Die Kunst des Historismus in Europa, Vienna, 13 September 1996 – 6 January 1997, no. 2.82

    The Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection, H. Blairman & Sons, 21 June – 14 July 2023, no. 6

  • Literature

    Michael McCarthy, ‘Soane’s “Saxon” Room at Stowe’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XLIV (2), May 1985, pp. 129–146

    Celina Fox, ed., London – World City 1800–1840, New Haven and London, 1992,no. 312

    Christopher Wilk, ed., Western Furniture 1350 to the Present Day, London, 1996, pp. 140–41, including drawing of the Gothic Library at Stowe (entry by Frances Collard)
    Der Traum vom Glück: Die Kunst des Historismus in Europa, Vienna, 1996, p. 335, no. 2.82

    Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection, London: H. Blairman & Sons, 2023, no. 6

  • Collection

    The Stowe House Preservation Trust; on show in the Gothic Library, Stowe House

  • Note
    Registration reference under the Ivory Act (2018): Q2J64KAZ