A North Dutch carved oak side table

PROBABLY LEEUWARDEN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

细节

A North Dutch carved oak side table
Probably Leeuwarden, early 18th Century
The rectangular top carved with a foliate edge, above panelled scrolling foliate-edged S-shaped supports carved with husk-trails and lambrequins, the shaped acanthus-carved stretcher centred by acoll coat-of-arms surmounted by a crown, minor restorations
82cm. high x 102cm. wide x 64cm. deep

拍品专文

The acoll coats-of-arms indicate that this table was made on the occasion of a marriage. Unfortunately, only the female arms have been identified. The oval shield is carved with the arms of de Swalue, probably for one of the elder sisters of Dr. Alexander Otto de Swalue (b. 1715), who was a lawyer at the Court of Friesland in Leeuwarden during the first half of the 18th Century. De Swalue had three elder sisters, Alexandrina (b. 1696), Ida Christina (b. 1697) and Alexandrina Hester (b. 1713), whose spouses have not yet been found in the family archives.