Table (Tavolo)
furniture maker
Unknown
Date1500-1530
Place MadeLombardo-Veneto, Italy, Europe
MediumWalnut
DimensionsOverall: 34 7/8 x 114 15/16 x 35 13/16 in. (88.6 x 292 x 91 cm)
ClassificationsFurniture
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberF30c7
eMuseum ID721262
Previous Number825
EmbARK ObjectID14830
TMS Source ID3512
Last Updated11/12/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryThis table is noteworthy for its trestle pedestals which are decorated with pairs of fanciful dolphins. These are set tail to tail, and are
wonderfully detailed to show the creatures’ scrolling mouths, spiny flippers, and spiky doral fins, as well as their scaly skin.
wonderfully detailed to show the creatures’ scrolling mouths, spiny flippers, and spiky doral fins, as well as their scaly skin.
BibliographyNotesWilliam M. Odom. A History of Italian Furniture from the Fourteenth Century to the Early Nineteenth Centuries. 2 vols. (Garden City, NY: 1918-19), pp. 93, 110, fig. 77. (Florentine, late 15th century)
Frida Schottmüller. Furniture and Interior Decoration of the Italian Renaissance. (New York: 1921), pp. xxiv-xxvi, fig. 283. (possibly Venetian, after 1500)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 276. (Italian)
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 9 (1 Nov. 1964), p. 2. (16th century)
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston: 2011), p. 298-99, no. 148.
Frida Schottmüller. Furniture and Interior Decoration of the Italian Renaissance. (New York: 1921), pp. xxiv-xxvi, fig. 283. (possibly Venetian, after 1500)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 276. (Italian)
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 9 (1 Nov. 1964), p. 2. (16th century)
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston: 2011), p. 298-99, no. 148.
ProvenanceNotesIn the collection of the dealer Stefano Bardini (1836–1922), Florence by 1893.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Stefano Bardini on 6 October 1897 for 3,190 lire.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Stefano Bardini on 6 October 1897 for 3,190 lire.
