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The waterleaf and bead and reel mouldings at top and base suggest  that the table was intended for an interior with a strong architectural character.The top of grey-veined marble may have matched the marble pavement on the floor of the entrance hall.<br><br><b>People</b><br>The table is similar in its bold architectural form to furniture designed by the architect William Kent and has previously been attributed to the cabinet-maker Benjamin Goodison. Several tables with frames carved with foxes are known,and other names associated with them include the carvers John Boson and James Richards, and the furniture maker James Moore, but none of the tables has been securely connected with a particular maker and, as there are differences of carving between them, they may be the work of different makers, all interpreting one original design.","physicalDescription":"Carved pinewood side-table painted white with a marble top on a solid wooden plinth. Rectangular jutting corners in front and similar projecting corners at the back. The rear legs in the form of massive rectangular symmetrical scrolls. The front legs in the form of seated  foxes facing outwards at each end. Openwork decoration consisting of pairs of convergent acanthus leaf sprays and a festoon of oak leaves. Pendant acorns form the top above a scallop shell standing vertically on the plinth. In front an openwork arrangement of intertwining festoon of oak leaves and acorns on either side of a head of Diana (missing her crescent moon emblem) facing frontwards above a scallop shell placed vertically. Moulded wood top rail supporting a top of white marble streaked and mottled with grey, shaped at the edge.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"pinewood","id":"x34984"}],"techniques":[{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Carved pinewood frame, painted white, supporting a marble slab","categories":[{"text":"Furniture","id":"THES48948"}],"styles":[{"text":"Palladian","id":"AAT21161"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2006AN4070","2006AN4071"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"54D (VA)","id":"THES49246"},"free":"","case":"PL1","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"54D (VA)","id":"THES49246"},"free":"","case":"PL1","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Side table","id":""}],[{"text":"Marble slab","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1730","earliest":"1725-01-01","latest":"1734-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Mr E. E. Cook, Bath","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"93.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"198","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"99","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Publication; 19/01/1999 by KN","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"The table came to the V&amp;A from Coleshill House, Berkshire in 1953. It had been photographed at Coleshill, published in Stratton and was offered (in 1952) to the V&amp;A by E. E. Cook, the then owner of the estate (V&amp;A Registry MA/1/C2466).\nA number of tables with similar supporters are known in private collections but none can be dated or attributed by documentary evidence. Another was illustrated in <i>Frank Lumb: an appreciation from his many friends </i>(privately printed, October 1993, perhaps in conjunction with the Harrogate Antiques Fair), p. 26. It was purchased in Scarborough from a local antique dealer and subsequently sold at the Grosvenor House Fair. There is a single table at Longford Castle, a pair of smaller pier tables at Firle Place, Sussex and a pair are at Stourhead, Wiltshire, a property of the National Trust. That pair have slabs of Rosso di Verona marble (probably replacements). In the 1742 inventory they were listed in the Picture Room, and in an 1838 inventory in the Dining Room. Images are available online at the National Trust website (inv. no. NT 731596). They are discussed in Dudley Dodd, 'The 1742 Inventory of Stourhead: Contemplating a Transient House', Furniture History, vol. LIII, pp. 51-90. illustrated as fig. 11, p. 63 and ‘A Brush With The Goddess: ‘Fox or Hound’ Tables by William Kent? Furniture History, 2024, where he also discusses the tables at Longford and Firle, and some others.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Side table, carved and painted white with marble top supported by carved foxes and a mask of Diana (the Roman goddess of hunting) on the front.","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":"Dudley Dodd, 'The 1742 Inventory of  Stourhead: Contemplating a Transient House', Furniture History, vol. 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