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CIRCA 1600 AND LATER
细节
AN ELIZABETHAN CARVED OAK DINING-TABLE
CIRCA 1600 AND LATER
The top above a frieze inlaid with chevrons and applied with egg-and-dart mouldings to the long sides, on turned gadrooned and foliate-carved cup-and-cover legs joined by stretchers, with plaque to the underside 'THIS OAK TABLE WAS FORMERLY THE VESTRY TABLE IN ST. MARY ABCHURCH.E.C. & IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN ORIGINALLY IN ST. LAURENCE POUTNEY WHICH WAS BURNT DOWN IN THE FIRE OF LONDON IN 1666. THE LATER CHURCH WAS NOT REBUILT. BUT SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN BUILT ST. MARY ABCHURCH & IS BELIEVED TO HAVE PUT WHAT CARVING AND FURNITURE WAS SAVED FROM ST LAURENCE INTO ST. MARYS THE TABLE WAS DISCARDED FOR ONE OF A LIGHTER & MORE CONVENIANT DESIGN & WAS PURCHASED IN 1856 BY MR EDWARD MACKMURDO. WHO FILLED THE ROLE OF CHURCH WARDEN AT THE TIME', with an inventory label 'D1727', with contacts cut into the ends for additional leaves, the top possibly associated
30¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 77 in. (195.5 cm.) long; 35¼ in. (89.5 cm.) deep
CIRCA 1600 AND LATER
The top above a frieze inlaid with chevrons and applied with egg-and-dart mouldings to the long sides, on turned gadrooned and foliate-carved cup-and-cover legs joined by stretchers, with plaque to the underside 'THIS OAK TABLE WAS FORMERLY THE VESTRY TABLE IN ST. MARY ABCHURCH.E.C. & IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN ORIGINALLY IN ST. LAURENCE POUTNEY WHICH WAS BURNT DOWN IN THE FIRE OF LONDON IN 1666. THE LATER CHURCH WAS NOT REBUILT. BUT SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN BUILT ST. MARY ABCHURCH & IS BELIEVED TO HAVE PUT WHAT CARVING AND FURNITURE WAS SAVED FROM ST LAURENCE INTO ST. MARYS THE TABLE WAS DISCARDED FOR ONE OF A LIGHTER & MORE CONVENIANT DESIGN & WAS PURCHASED IN 1856 BY MR EDWARD MACKMURDO. WHO FILLED THE ROLE OF CHURCH WARDEN AT THE TIME', with an inventory label 'D1727', with contacts cut into the ends for additional leaves, the top possibly associated
30¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 77 in. (195.5 cm.) long; 35¼ in. (89.5 cm.) deep
来源
By repute, as per the plaque to the underside.