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They were often matched with a mirror and a pair of candlestands, as here. Carved and gilded pier furniture was often made to match other interior decorative features.<br><br><b>Place</b><br>The rustic caryatids (supports in the form of sculptured figures) which carry the table top match those flanking the mirror, and may have been inspired by the borders of the 16th-century Brussels tapestries illustrating the 'Story of Cyrus'. These hung in the Tapestry Room at Hinton House in Hampshire. Their borders were embellished with caryatids, allegorical figures and groups of birds.<br><br><b>Design & Designing</b><br>Like the matching mirror, the table design was also inspired by French prints in books of designs, such as J.B. Toro's <i>Livre de Table de diverses formes</i> of about 1716 and Nicholas Pineau's <i>Nouveau desseins de Pieds de Tables</i> (1737). Pineau's designs were reissued in London by  William Jones in <i>The Gentlemens' and Builders' Companion</i> (1739) and by Batty Langley in <i>The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs</i> (1740). Matthias Lock (born about 1710; died 1765) understood the Rococo idiom (a style imported from France) more fully than any other English furniture designer.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>Lock worked on the table for 15 days, and was probably responsible for the carving, which cost £21. The joiner's costs came to £22 5s 5d.","physicalDescription":"Side table, carved, bronzed and gilded, the slab top veneered with onyx. Gilt pine possibly with agate veneered slab. The supporting rectangular frame has a guilloche and feather frieze with a central winged lion mask cartouche. The frame is supported on four acanthus scroll legs which curve inwards to the base plinth. The front legs are formed of rustic caryatid/atlantes figures (matching those on the accompanying mirror -  W.8-1960) which are connected to the central lion mask by a fruit and flower festoon.\r\n\r\nAnalysis of paint and gilding layer stratification on this table and the pier glass, W.8-1960, carried out by Pascale Patris, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 2003; report in curatorial file for W.8-1960","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Lock, Matthias","id":"A8622"},"association":{"text":"designer and maker","id":"x34662"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"pine","id":"AAT12620"},{"text":"agate","id":"AAT11135"},{"text":"onyx","id":"AAT11136"}],"techniques":[{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"},{"text":"veneering","id":"AAT53878"},{"text":"gilding","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Gilded pine, with agate veneered slab","categories":[{"text":"Images Online","id":"THES48937"},{"text":"Furniture","id":"THES48948"},{"text":"British Galleries","id":"THES48985"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2006AM7366","2006AV6648","2006AM7364","2006AP1578","2006AM7362","2006AM7360"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"53B (VA)","id":"THES49256"},"free":"","case":"WW","shelf":"","box":"6"},{"current":{"text":"53B (VA)","id":"THES49256"},"free":"","case":"WW","shelf":"","box":"6"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Side table","id":""}],[{"text":"Marble slab","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1745","earliest":"1740-01-01","latest":"1749-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Mrs F. E. Rhodes","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"85.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"130.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"71.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Registered Description; 18/01/1999 by MH","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Designed and made in London by the designer and carver Matthias Lock (born in London, about 1710, died there in 1765) for Hinton House, Hinton St George, Somerset, for John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett (1708-1764, inherited 1743).  The table was part of a set with a mirror (V&amp;A W.8-1960) and two candlestands (now in a private collection).  Drawings for the mirror, table and candlestands are also in the collection of the V&amp;A (inv. nos. 2587, 2602 and 2588).  Annotations on the drawing of the table record that it took 89 days to make, with Matthias Lock working on it for 15 of those days. It cost £22. 5. 0.  The drawing also records that it was made, with the mirror and candlestands, for the Tapestry Room.  Tapestries were considered the most luxurious of hangings for a drawing room, so this would have been for the grandest room in the house.  Hinton House was originaly built in the medieval period, enlarged in the early 16th century and remodelled in the Palladian style by the architect Matthew Brettingham (1699-1769) for the 2nd Earl in the middle years of the 18th century. \n\nThese furnishings were, however, in a strongly Rococo style, with playfully naturalistic figures of animals and birds, with lavish garlands of flowers on the front of the table, all celebrating the pleasures of rustic life.  \n\nHinton House was sold up in 1968 and it contents dispersed. 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The original design  (shown alongside) shows that it took eighty-nine days to make the table, and cost £22 - 5s - 5d for the joiner and £21 for the carving.  Lock worked on it for fifteen days, the remainder being done by his assistants.  The design for the mirror shows that it took one hundred and thirty days' work and cost £36 - 5s; Lock worked on it for twenty days.  Lock was an exceptionally capable draughtsman who understood the Rococo idiom more fully than any other English furniture designer.\r\n\r\nThe table was given by Mrs. F.E. Rhodes.","date":{"text":"pre October 2000","earliest":null,"latest":"2000-09-30"}},{"text":"British Galleries:\r\nMatthias Lock's sketch for this table and its matching mirror is in the Museum's Print Room. Notes tell us that the table took 89 days to carve and the mirror 138 days. Lock was a carver and a teacher of ornament, whose innovative Rococo designs were very influential.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["W.35:1-1964","W.35:2-1964"],"accessionNumberNum":"35","accessionNumberPrefix":"W","accessionYear":1964,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Side table","Marble slab"],"assets":["2019LN1170","2019LN1980","2019LR1671","2019LP0527","2019LU4743","2019LV7203"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-05-27","recordCreationDate":"1999-06-10","availableToBook":false}}