Object details
Accession number
F16e10
Primary Creator
Italian, Venice
Full title
Table (Tavolo)
Creation Date
18th century
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the antique dealer Moisè Dalla Torre and Co., Venice on 24 August 1899 for 800 lire.
Dimensions
89.7 x 183.4 x 112 cm (35 5/16 x 72 3/16 x 44 1/8 in.)
Display Media
Gilded poplar, top of verde antico marble
Web Commentary
This 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.
Permanent Gallery Location
Raphael Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. 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.
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