A GEORGE I WALNUT GATE-LEG TABLE

Details
A GEORGE I WALNUT GATE-LEG TABLE
CIRCA 1725

The slender rectangular foldover top with polished interior above a drawer to each end on columnar-turned legs joined by stretchers and with ovoid toes, with paper label 'From the H.C. FOOT COLLECTION at 36 High St., Oxford' (top restored)--28¼in. (72cm.) high, 26¼in. (68cm.) wide, 11in. (28cm.) deep
Provenance
The late Mrs. M.B. Casey, sold Christie's London, 14 May 1992, lot 122

Lot Essay

H.C. Foot were antique dealers who appear in the Oxford directories from 1938-1940. A table bearing this label from the collection of the late Margorie Wiggins Prescott was sold in these Rooms, 31 January 1981, lot 304, and again, 17 October 1992, lot 294.