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FRANCES, COUNTESS WALDEGRAVE'S DINING TABLE FROM STRAWBERRY HILL A LARGE VICTORIAN OAK EXTENDING DINING TABLE

CIRCA 1850

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FRANCES, COUNTESS WALDEGRAVE'S DINING TABLE FROM STRAWBERRY HILL A LARGE VICTORIAN OAK EXTENDING DINING TABLE
Circa 1850
With eleven additional leaves, the rectangular moulded top with canted corners above a plain frieze and telescopic mechanism, on eight lapetted and faceted tapering legs with carved strap-work ornament, with urn feet and concealed castors
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 67 in. (170 cm.) wide unextended; 345½ in. (877 cm.) wide extended; 67 in. (170 cm.) deep

Provenance

Commissioned by Frances Elizabeth Anne, Lady Waldegrave for the Dining Room, at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham.

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Lot Essay

The table was commissioned by Frances Elizabeth Anne, Lady Waldegrave (d.1879) for Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, probably from the Finsbury firm of Willian Smee and Sons, who issued a catalogue entitled, Designs for Furniture, in 1850. It would appear to have been ordered soon after her marriage in 1847 to George Granville Vernon Harcourt, M.P. (d. 1861). The table's robust legs, with reed-gadrooned capitals, and chamfered and herm-tapered pillars with pearled ribbon-guilloche and urn-like plinths, reflects the combined antique and Elizabethan fashions popularised by publications such as Henry Whitaker's, Practical Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterers Treasury of Designs, 1847. It would appear to have been supplied for new Dining Room, when the Waldegrave wing of the house was added in the 1850s. It was photographed here in 1863 by P. H. Delamotte.

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