Side table (one of a pair)

After a design by Matthias Lock British

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 511

This monumental pair of side tables (see also 2007.196.2a-c) was likely made after an unfinished drawing, now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, by the designer and carver Matthias Lock (ca. 1710–1765). Although Lock is best known for his designs in an English version of the French Rococo style, this drawing is associated with the Palladian movement. Propagated in early eighteenth-century England by the architect and designer William Kent and his patron Lord Burlington, the large shell motifs, classical masks, lion's paws, curling acanthus leaves, and running Vitruvian scrolls on these tables are characteristic of Palladian furniture design. The varied surface treatment of the water gilding on portions of these tables, for instance, in the chiseled features of the satyrs, are particularly beautiful. Acquired for the Museum's dining room from Kirtlington Park, near Oxford, these tables were originally part of a larger set; a nearly identical pair is in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Side table (one of a pair), After a design by Matthias Lock (British, London ca. 1710–ca. 1765 London), Carved gilded pine with modern scagliola top, British

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2006.196.1a,b

Side table (one of a pair), After a design by Matthias Lock (British, London ca. 1710–ca. 1765 London), Carved gilded pine with modern scagliola top, British
Side table (one of a pair), After a design by Matthias Lock (British, London ca. 1710–ca. 1765 London), Carved gilded pine with modern scagliola top, British

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