Charles Heathcote Tatham
Console Table (one of a pair)

CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Console Table (one of a pair)
Datec. 1805–1811
Probable placeLondon, England
Mediumred pine, gilding, Travertine marble, plaster, and iron
Dimensions34 × 56 × 30 in. (86.4 × 142.2 × 76.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Rienzi Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harris Masterson III
Object number94.1194.2
Current Location
Rienzi
Rienzi Dining Room
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Department
Rienzi
Object Type
Description

More flamboyant than functional, console tables usually were made in pairs to anchor grand rooms in well-appointed 18th-century houses. Console tables were often placed between windows, with mirrors hung above them.


This gilded console table is attributed to the London firm of William Marsh and Thomas Tatham, who produced furniture for an illustrious clientele in the 18th century that included the Prince of Wales. The dolphins that form the base were borrowed from antiquity and are in the Regency style, an extension of Neoclassicism. This pair of tables was probably made for the 1st Duke of Sutherland.


ProvenanceAttributed to Marsh and Tatham, English, active 1803-11; Collection of George Granville Leveson-Gower, Marquis of Stafford, later Duke of Sutherland, Cleveland House; Collection of Lord Eleesmere, Bridgewater House, Mayfair, London; [M. Harris & Sons, London]; purchased by Harris Masterson III, January, 1952; given to MFAH, 1994
Exhibition History"English Taste: The Art of Dining in the Eighteenth Century," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 17 September 2011 - 29 January 2012.

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