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A tale of two tables
06/2013 | 1323 | 155
Pages: 390-395
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Author:
Harris, Eileen (Harris, Eileen)
Subjects
artists:
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 / Gori, Lamberto Cristiano
dates:
1770-1779
museums and institutions:
Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands, Rancho Mirage, United States
patrons:
Williams-Wynn, Watkin, Fourth Baronet, 1749-1789
subjects:
Furniture / Tables (support furniture) / Console tables / Inlays / Commissions / Marbles / Reliefs
subjects:
Collections, Public
Illustrations
Attributed works:
35. Side-table, one of a pair from 20 St James's Square, London, designed by Robert Adam (Annenberg Retreat, Sunnylands, Rancho Mirage CA)
Attributed works:
36. Borghese dancers, by Lamberto Cristiano Gori. 1770. Scagliola table-top (Annenberg Retreat, Sunnylands, Rancho Mirage CA)
Attributed works:
37. Maidens adorning a candelabrum, by Lamberto Cristiano Gori. 1770. Scagliola table-top (Annenberg Retreat, Sunnylands, Rancho Mirage CA)
Attributed works:
39. Nuptiales Chorae, plate 63 from Admirando Romanarum antiquitatum, by Giovanni Pietro Bellori and Pietro Santi Bartoli, Rome 1693.
Attributed works:
40. Il triofo Romano, by Lamberto Cristiano Gori. 1768. Scagliola table-top (Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence)
Attributed works:
41. Chimney-piece in the front drawing room at 20 St James's Square, London, designed by Robert Adam
Attributed works:
42. 'Design of a Frame for the Scagiola Tables for Sir Watkin Wynn Baronet. Adelphie August 24 1773' by Robert Adam (Courtesy of the Trustees of the Sir John Soane's Museum, London; photography by Ardon Bar-Hama)
Attributed works:
43. 'Candlestick for Sir Watkin Wynne Bart./9 March 1773' by Robert Adam (Courtesy of the Trustees of the Sir John Soane's Museum, London; photograph by Ardon Bar-Hama)
Attributed works:
44. Side-table, one of a pair from 20 St James's Square, London, designed by Robert Adam (Annenberg Retreat, Sunnylands, Rancho Mirage CA)
Western art unattributed:
38. Borghese dances. Greco-Roman, 2nd century AD (Musée du Louvre, Paris)