LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A SWEDISH BURR WALNUT STAINED PEARWOOD AND EBONISED CIRCULAR CENTRE TABLE
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The panelled frieze with foliate and rosette carved tablets on tapering turned fluted and foliate carved legs joined by panelled stretchers with a central urn finial and with brass castors, with two paper labels to the underside, a crowned monogram 'GAVI No 152', the other crowned intials 'GAL No 850', also stencilled '175' with a crowned emblem
43½in (111cm.) diameter, 30½in. (77cm.) high

Provenance

Probably the Royal Palace of Ulriksdal, Stockholm.

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Lot Essay

Ulriksdal, built c.1640, was, for many years, used mainly as a summer Palace. It's fortunes changed in 1923 when Crown Prince Gustav IV Adolf married Louise Mountbatten and took Ulriksdal as their home, embarking on a refurbishment that returned the Palace to it's former glory.

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