Refectory Table

Florence, Italy

19th century with some older parts

  • Titles Refectory Table (Descriptive)
  • Medium oak and walnut
  • Dimensions Overall: 102 x 35 in. (259.1 x 88.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1959.33
  • Work Type table
  • Classification Furniture

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Round creamware dinner plate with petal-shaped rim decorated in monochrome sepia enamel with a hand painted scene of St. Briavels Castle in Gloucestershire, England, from the east, within a border of false gadroons, the rim of the plate has a garland of oak leaves and acorns around its perimeter with a central shield-shaped cartouche within which a stylized, green-enameled frog, with a small band of sepia enamel on the edge of the rim.
Obverse: Bust in profile right. Reverse with inscription.
Small black basalt footed urn resting on a small square plinth decorated on each side with a molded pattern of ovals, the foot and stem engine turned and with a band of overlapping leaves at the edge, the lower body of the urn with graceful acanthus leaves extending upward and on each side a garland of leafy grape vines and bunches of grapes, the two handles are formed of satyr masks, whose conjoined horns curve up and attach to the lip of the vase, above the shoulder and on the neck the decoration is likewise engine turned, the conforming cover is also engine turned and has a ball finial (possibly not original).
The rectangular frame with pierced foliate motifs and scrolling foliage at the finial. The lithophane with a Rhenish church.