24 May 2012
12:00 BST
Chester
The Beedham Collection: Selected Oak Furniture & Works of Art 1450 - 1750
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The Beedham Collection: Selected Oak Furniture & Works of Art 1450 - 1750
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A rare Elizabeth I oak draw-leaf table base
Circa 1580-1600
Lacking top, each frieze decorated with raised applied nulled carving flanked or centred by acanthus leaf and ending in paterae, raised on Ionic capital-headed bulbous-turned columns, each with gadroon carving over an unusually plain middle and acanthus-wrapped base, each on a block support which probably originally sat on capped peripheral stretchers, on later bun feet, with associated early 20th century boarded top, dimensions of base 183cm wide x 82cm deep x 75.5cm high, (72" wide x 32" deep x 29.5" high)
Lacking top, each frieze decorated with raised applied nulled carving flanked or centred by acanthus leaf and ending in paterae, raised on Ionic capital-headed bulbous-turned columns, each with gadroon carving over an unusually plain middle and acanthus-wrapped base, each on a block support which probably originally sat on capped peripheral stretchers, on later bun feet, with associated early 20th century boarded top, dimensions of base 183cm wide x 82cm deep x 75.5cm high, (72" wide x 32" deep x 29.5" high)
Sold for
£4,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Comparative Literature: V. Chinnery, Oak Furniture: The British Tradition (1993), p. 288, fig. 3:160, illustrates an English 'withdrawing table', which although later in date, represents how the top and stretcher arrangement possibly appeared. H. Cescinsky & E. Gribble, Early English Furniture and Woodwork (1922), p. 106, fig. 134, illustrates a walnut table at Ruckinge Church, Kent, dated to the late 16th/early 17th century, with similar raised nulled friezes, again with stylized leaf detail to the centre and ends, and raised on gadroon-carved bulbous legs with Ionic capitals.
Category: Furniture / Oak Furniture
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