拍品 42
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TWIN-PEDESTAL AND CUMBERLAND-ACTION DINING-TABLE, the rounded rectangular top crossbanded with rosewood and partridgewood, the ends each supported by turned columnar spreading pedestals on tripartite reeded waved downswept legs and casters, the drop-leaf central section with folding conforming supports, the top, except for one leaf and one end, re-laid, restorations, three supporting blocks replaced, with label ANTIQUE FURNITURE FROM NORMAN ADAMS LIMITED 8-10, HANS ROAD, LONDON, SW3, the two leaves possibly originally with individual supports

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TWIN-PEDESTAL AND CUMBERLAND-ACTION DINING-TABLE, the rounded rectangular top crossbanded with rosewood and partridgewood, the ends each supported by turned columnar spreading pedestals on tripartite reeded waved downswept legs and casters, the drop-leaf central section with folding conforming supports, the top, except for one leaf and one end, re-laid, restorations, three supporting blocks replaced, with label ANTIQUE FURNITURE FROM NORMAN ADAMS LIMITED 8-10, HANS ROAD, LONDON, SW3, the two leaves possibly originally with individual supports
160¼in.(410cm.)long, fully extended; 47½in.(120.5cm.)wide; 28½in.(72cm.)high

拍品专文

By tradition the first Cumberland-action dining-table was made for Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, 4th son of Frederick, Prince of Wales and brother of George III. He was a patron of John Linnell in the mid-1770s so it is possible he was the first recipient of a sophisticated design which is a development of the double-gateleg table, adapted so that the legs spread the weight without obstructing people sitting at it.