Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 30th March 2022
Lot 529
NAVAL INTEREST. AN EXOTIC HARDWOOD TRIPOD TABLE
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £50
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Description
NAVAL INTEREST. AN EXOTIC HARDWOOD TRIPOD TABLE
19TH CENTURY
the octagonal tilt-top inlaid with cube parquetry, the centre with a garter, inscribed 'H. M. S. Thetis' and a central parquerty star, on a turned stem and scroll supports
73.5cm high, 64.5cm wide
Catalogue Note
An H. M. S. Thetis was a forty-six gun frigate of thousand and eighty-six tons, built in Pembroke in 1817. She was wrecked on the coast of Brazil on the 5th December 1830.