A late Victorian mahogany Capstan, or extending dining table, with a circular revolving top on a turned bulbous and gadrooned column with foliate scroll supports and moulded splayed quadruped legs terminating in paw feet, fitted with eight numbered leaves -- 71in. (180cm. diameter (closed), 100in. (254cm.) diameter (extended), 28in.(71cm.) high.

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A late Victorian mahogany Capstan, or extending dining table, with a circular revolving top on a turned bulbous and gadrooned column with foliate scroll supports and moulded splayed quadruped legs terminating in paw feet, fitted with eight numbered leaves -- 71in. (180cm. diameter (closed), 100in. (254cm.) diameter (extended), 28in.(71cm.) high.

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This type of expanding table is probably more commonly called a Jupe table after Robert Jupe who patented the design in 1835 and made the first examples in conjunction with John Johnstone with whom he had established the firm of Johnstone, Jupe & Co. in about 1835.

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