An Australian full cedar library table by Andrew Lenehan, Circa 1870
An Australian full cedar library table
by Andrew Lenehan, Circa 1870
the rectangular top with rounded ends and leather insert above two short drawers with turned handles and two false drawers (lacking handles), above fluted and carved end supports with out-swept legs terminating in ceramic castors, joined by a turned stretcher, the right hand drawer stamped, 'A. LENEHAN' and with paper label to the left drawer, 'ANDREW LENEHAN/(BY ROYAL AUTHORITY)/CABINET MAKER & UPHOLSTERER,/143 PITT STREET, SYDNEY' , 122cm wide, 61cm deep, 79cm high (48" wide, 24" deep, 31" high).
Sold for AU$ 3,416 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Reference:
    Nineteenth Century Australian Furniture, Kevin Fahy, Christina Simpson, Andrew Simpson, David Ell Press, Sydney 1985, plate 513, page 508.

    Provenance:
    Antique Centre Surry Hills, April 1983

Category: Furniture / Australian Colonial Furniture and Australiana


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