Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks & The Age of Oak - 02 Oct 2025
THE MITTON HALL TABLE. A WONDERFUL CHARLES I OAK SIX-LEG REFECTORY TABLE
£15,000 - £20,000
THE MITTON HALL TABLE. A WONDERFUL CHARLES I OAK SIX-LEG REFECTORY TABLE
C.1640
with a highly impressive matching two-board top, with cleated ends, the frieze carved with Trough of Bowland regional tightly-curled scrolls, centred by the marriage initials ‘IP’ over ‘MP’, all remaining frieze rails channel run moulded and with integral scroll profiled spandrels, on six cup and cover bulbous turned legs, joined by robust rectangular section peripheral stretchers and a central cross stretcher, an inscribed line at the right hand end of the top indicated former use as a shuffleboard, along with the indication of a catch box
78.5cm high, 434cm long, 80cm wide
Provenance
Mitton Hall, Mitton, nr. Whalley, Lancashire, a grade two listed Tudor Manor House.
Literature
Illustrated Margaret Jourdain, English Decoration & Furniture of the Early Renaissance 1500-1600, p. 237, fig. 327. Listed with Messer’s C. H. F. Kindermann, Arlington Street, Mayfair, London.