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Gower House side table
Maker
1723-1796
Attributed to
(cabinetmaker)
1718-1782
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Height: 86.2 cm
Depth: 77.6 cm
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The robust D-shaped table and its simple ornament of draped vases and a Greek key frieze are typical of Chambers’s ponderous yet inventive architectural designs: sourced in Ancient Rome but transformed for modern needs.
The back legs were added when the table was removed from its original position built into a niche in the Great Drawing Room of Gower house. We know from contemporary photographs that the table was still in place in the years immediately before the house was demolished in 1886. The tabletop is modern, and was made to suggest the original white marble top, now lost.
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Exhibition History
Néoclassicisme, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 29/11/2010-14/02/2011
The Courtauld Collects - 20 Years of Acquisitions, Somerset House & London & England, 17/06/2010-19/09/2010 ...More
William Chambers - Architect to George III, National Museum & Stockholm & Sweden, 20/02/1997-20/04/1997
Something for Everyone - Work assisted by the National Art
Collections Fund, Christie's, London, 06/01/1997-26/01/1997
Sir William Chambers - Architect to George III, Somerset House & London & England, 10/10/1996-05/01/1997 ...Less
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