Table (Tavolo)
furniture maker
Unknown
Date18th century
Place MadeVenice, Veneto, Italy, Europe
MediumGilded poplar, top of verde antico marble
Dimensions89.7 x 183.4 x 112 cm (35 5/16 x 72 3/16 x 44 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsFurniture
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberF16e10
eMuseum ID724856
EmbARK ObjectID11782
TMS Source ID949
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryThis gilt marble-topped table was not made all at once: its toupie feet and aprons are later additions, painstakingly carved, punched, and gilded to blend with the rest of the frame. Changing fashions may have called for a taller table height with more ornate decoration.
BibliographyNotesCatalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 10. (as "Table of Verd-Antique")
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 116.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston, 2011), pp. 128-29, no. 43.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 116.
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston, 2011), pp. 128-29, no. 43.
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the antique dealer Moisè Dalla Torre and Co., Venice on 24 August 1899 for 800 lire.
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