Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 5th July 2017
Lot 4
A rare Cromwellian cedar gateleg dining table
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000
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Description
A rare Cromwellian cedar gateleg dining table, the oval drop-leaf top above solid ends and on scroll sleigh type feet, with a brass inventory label 'D 493', 79.7cm high, 97.3 x 110.5cm (open).
A comparative example in oak and cedar survives at Ham House and is illustrated in Thornton and Tomlin, The Furnishing and Decoration of Ham House, The Furniture History Society, 1980, fig.52 and Adam Bowett,. English Furniture 1660-1714, p.107, plates 4:1,2. The Ham House table was one of fourteen recorded in the 1677 inventories.
Woolley and Wallis, Furniture and Works of Art, 9th September 2008, lot 42 for a closely related example.