EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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AN ENGLISH OAK REFECTORY TABLE
EARLY 17TH CENTURY
With cleated top and ribbed friezes on carved tapering legs, previously with draw-leaves
31in. (79cm.) high, 73in. (186cm.) long, 37in. (94cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The profile of the carved legs on this table is distinctive.
A table with closely similar legs is in The Board Room, The Abbot's Hospital, Guildford, Surrey; it is documented that this was given in 1709 by a local man, Robert Berry, who became Master of the Hospital. It is not unreasonable to surmise a Surrey origin or workshop for that table and thus possibly for this distinctive type of leg.
Another table with very similar legs and frieze (and with it's draw leaves ) was sold as part of 'The Contents of Littlecote House', Sotheby's, November 20th-22nd 1985, lot 401

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