Octagonal Table (Tavolo ottagonale)
furniture maker
Unknown
Date16th century (with 19th century top)
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumWalnut
Dimensions80.7 x 117.6 x 118.3 cm (31 3/4 x 46 5/16 x 46 9/16 in.)
ClassificationsFurniture
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberF22s5
eMuseum ID725645
EmbARK ObjectID11652
TMS Source ID841
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesGilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 192. (late 16th-century style)
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston: 2011), pp. 208-9, no. 95.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston: 2011), pp. 208-9, no. 95.
MarksNotesOval printed label (underside of the tabletop): "C. Borrani e Figlio / Antiquarii / Doratori e Verniciatori / Piazza S. Maria Novella No. 6 / Firenze."
Damaged label (underside of the tabletop) also from C. Borrani e Figlio.
Small label (underside of the tabletop): 6H.
Small label (underside of the tabletop) handwritten in ink: #130 / mno...
Damaged label (underside of the tabletop) also from C. Borrani e Figlio.
Small label (underside of the tabletop): 6H.
Small label (underside of the tabletop) handwritten in ink: #130 / mno...
ProvenanceNotesCollection of the antique dealers C. Borrani e Figlio in the 1800s, Florence.
Gift from Charles M. Ffoulke (1841–1909), art critic and one of the leading American authorities on tapestries, to Isabella Stewart Gardner in February 1906, around the time she purchased eleven tapestries from him.
Gift from Charles M. Ffoulke (1841–1909), art critic and one of the leading American authorities on tapestries, to Isabella Stewart Gardner in February 1906, around the time she purchased eleven tapestries from him.
