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- Tea-table
- Unknown Artist / Maker
- England
- c. 1850
- Mahogany, porcelain plaques, steel and gilt-bronze
- Height: 84.5 cm
Diameter: 65.5 cm, top - Inscription: 'F. Feser / Aug 1943' In pencil
- F314
- Reserve Vault 2
- Commentary
- History
- Further Reading
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- This table, with its use of solid mahogany and of steel screws, appears to be an English table of the mid-19th century, deriving its form from the mahogany tea-tables of the previous century, with their hinged tops. The Sèvres plaques (museum numbers C509 a-g) are a mixture of hard and soft paste and were decorated in the 19th century in a manner which recalls the patterns on dinner services made for Madame du Barry (1771) and Maria Carolina Luisa, Queen of Naples (1773-4).
In 1867 the table was lent by the 4th Marquess of Hertford to the Petit Trianon exhibition, where it was described as having belonged to the princesse de Lamballe (1749-92), the close friend and confidante of Queen Marie-Antoinette. This was clearly untrue, but it exemplifies the way in which collectors were attracted to decorative art which had an association with Marie-Antoinette and it suggests that the Marquess of Hertford may have believed the table to be an original piece of French furniture from the ancien régime when he bought it.
- This table, with its use of solid mahogany and of steel screws, appears to be an English table of the mid-19th century, deriving its form from the mahogany tea-tables of the previous century, with their hinged tops. The Sèvres plaques (museum numbers C509 a-g) are a mixture of hard and soft paste and were decorated in the 19th century in a manner which recalls the patterns on dinner services made for Madame du Barry (1771) and Maria Carolina Luisa, Queen of Naples (1773-4).
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