IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 95847 accession number: M.2 & A-1975 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Mahogany inlaid with ebony. The rectangular top is edged with herringbone inlays. The upper part of each of the six legs is spirally fluted and reeded. The rectangular areas at the junctions of the double Y-shaped stretcher are inlaid with tulips and foliage in ebony. The lower parts of the legs taper to square feet. The table is accompanied by an extension with three legs (A) object type: Mahogany dining table with rectangular top inlaid with ebony, six spirally turned legs, and a double Y-shaped stretcher. Accompanied by an extension with three legs (A) title: dining table NOTES ----- type: history note value: Alexander Alexander Ionides (1840-98), No. 1, Holland Park, London; by descent to Mrs. P. Hotchkis; her sale, Christie's, 23 January 1975, Objects of Art, Victorian Furniture, Eastern Rugs amnd Carpets, p. 24, lot 134; purchased by Haslam & Whiteway for the Fitzwilliam Museum. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the G. H. W. Rylands Fund. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/95847 PEOPLE ------------------- Alexander Alexander Ionides, 1840-1898 SUBJECTS ------------------- No. 1, Holland Park TECHNIQUES ---------- inlay (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: furniture DATING ------ creation date: 1880 - 1880 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1880 culture: Victorian culture: 19th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Morris and Company maker: Jack, George Washington DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 72.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 198.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 121 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Morris & Company in Cambridge CITATIONS -------- Morris & Company in Cambridge Auction News Out of the Ordinary, The Discerning and Individual Taste of Christopher Gibbs and Harris Lindsay ---