AN ELIZABETHAN OAK DRAW-LEAF REFECTORY TABLE

LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY AND LATER

Details

AN ELIZABETHAN OAK DRAW-LEAF REFECTORY TABLE
LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY AND LATER
With sliding ends above a strapwork frieze with later leaf-carved molded border on cup-and-cover legs with box stretchers
33 in. (86.4 cm.) high, 98 ½ in. (250.2 cm.) long, 36 ¼ in. (92.1 cm.) deep

Provenance

Mr. Philip Tilden (d. 1956).
Fletcher Fund, 1923.

Literature

P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture: The Age of Oak, London, 1904, figs. 107-108.
C.O. Cornelius, 'Recent purchases of English furniture', Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, February 1924, p. 44.
P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1924, vol. III, p. 205, fig. 7.
R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. edn., Suffolk, 1954, vol. III, p. 213, fig. 8.
H. Cescinsky, English Furniture from Gothic to Sheraton, Michigan, 1929, p. 92.

Lot Essay

The table almost certainly belonged to the acclaimed architect Philip Tilden (d. 1956), who is most celebrated for working with Sir Philip Sasson at Port Lympne and Trent Park, and for Sir Winston Churchill at Chartwell House, his country house in Kent.

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