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It is one of a pair with an octagonal table en suite.<br><br><b>Places</b><br>In 1805 there was already a very large library, of two stories with a gallery, at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire. The Gothic Library was created in a former schoolroom below the existing Library and connected to it by a staircase. It was furnished with a set of Indian 17th-century carved ebony chairs, as well as the suite of furniture, which included this table.<br><br><b>Historical Associations</b><br>Messrs Christie & Manson sold the contents of Stowe House on the premises over 40 days in August, September and October 1848. The sale, caused by the massive debts of the Duke of Buckingham, attracted buyers that included Queen Victoria, who had recently visited Stowe with Prince Albert, several members of the Rothschild family, and various prominent dealers from London. The pair of side tables and the octagonal table en suite were bought by the same person and remained together until 1972. The octagonal table is now in the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.","physicalDescription":"Ebonised mahogany table with moulded ivory decoration","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Sir John Soane","id":"N2369"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"AAT25190"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"mahogany","id":"AAT12221"},{"text":"ivory","id":"AAT11857"}],"techniques":[{"text":"ebonising","id":"x36341"},{"text":"moulding","id":"x46876"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"British Galleries","id":"THES48985"},{"text":"Furniture","id":"THES48948"}],"styles":[{"text":"Gothic Revival","id":"AAT21452"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2006AT2708"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"120 (VA)","id":"THES49226"},"free":"","case":"PL3","shelf":"","box":"6"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Side table","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1805","earliest":"1800-01-01","latest":"1809-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"91.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"142.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"44.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Designed by Sir John Soane (born in 1753, died in 1837) for the 'Saxon Library' or 'Gothic library' at Stowe, Buckinghamshire; probably made in London. Purchased from the family of Mr and Mrs Charles Handley-Read, Beaconsfield.\nAnother table, a pair to this, was sold at Sotheby's Belgravia, 1 November 1972, also from the Handley-Read collection.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Side table, ca. 1805, English, designed by Sir John Soane","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Wilk, Christopher, ed. . <font -u>Western Furniture 1350 to the Present Day</font>. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1996. 230p., ill. ISBN 085667463X."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"‘The Dispersal of the Handley-Read Collection’ by Simon Swynfen Jervis, in ‘The Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read Collection’,  Decorative Arts Society Journal no. 40 2016. 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The library was created by Soane in 1805-6 to house the collection of medieval manuscripts belonging to the 1st Marquis of Buckingham.","date":{"text":"pre October 2000","earliest":null,"latest":"2000-09-30"}},{"text":"British Galleries:\r\nThis table is from a suite of Gothic furniture made for a library at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, that contained a collection of medieval manuscripts. Its owner, the 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753-1813), specified that the library's design should follow the screen of the tomb of Henry VII (1457-1509) in Westminster Abbey.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["W.32-1972"],"accessionNumberNum":"32","accessionNumberPrefix":"W","accessionYear":1972,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN0759","2019LP3117","2019LT7944"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-23","recordCreationDate":"2001-01-25","availableToBook":false}}