CIRCA 1840

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN SAMPLE OR PATTERN CENTRE TABLE
CIRCA 1840
With a simulated grey veined marble top with an ovolo edge, the frieze with a part-foliate scroll and strapwork frieze on cabriole legs with scroll ornament to one end and polygonal tapered legs to the other, constructed in two halves but apparently always conceived as a 'sample' table, inscribed in white chalk 'Be. 23/1/79'
31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide; 20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Designed in the 'Elizabethan'/Jacobethan and Rococo revival styles, this table is almost certainly a literal realisation of a Pattern Book sample table. Such 'Elizabethan' strapwork ornament featured as early as 1838 in Richard Bridgen's antiquarian Furniture with candelabra.

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