AN ENGLISH OAK REFECTORY TABLE, LATE 17TH CENTURY

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AN ENGLISH OAK REFECTORY TABLE, LATE 17TH CENTURY
variously adapted during its lifetime, with a cleated plank top, with front and side foliate filled guilloche friezes and punch mark detail, on block and ring-turned legs joined by peripheral stretchers, the front stretcher with gouged decoration and geometrical and punched detail, the side and rear stretchers with moulded detail --96½in. (245cm.) long, 32in. (81cm.) high, 29in. (74cm.) deep
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拍品專文

This table appears to have had an intriguing life. Formerly larger (perhaps a six leg table), it was adapted, probably in the early 18th century, and given an additional hinging leaf at each end; these were later discarded, but the loper boxes survive beneath and the holes in the frieze for the lopers remain. In the mid 19th century, the legs were reshaped and ring-turned, as we see them now.