Swiss, 1480-1520, walnut, beech, pine, 52/3047

SWISS: late 15th or early 16th century
Table of carved walnut, beech and pine. Below the plain top is a compartment fitted with a shelf round three sides, resting on supports carved with leaf-work and rosettes; the four sides of this compartment are carved outside with wavy stems of Gothic leafage. In front is a shaped lockplate with applied scrolls. The whole rests on two wide supports broadening out at the base and connected by two plain stretchers fastened by wooden wedges.

Purchased with numbers 76-84 and 131-1908 for a total of £397 4s. 4d.
Location history from dept Findings List: Room 1 Centre; 1938 transferred to Circulation

Proposed by A.B. Skinner and T.A. Lehfeldt (23/12/1907) in the museum's assessment of V&A: 75-1908, panelling from a room dated 1493 from a house at Uerikon (a suburb of Zurich), as one of a group of items on offer from Sir Henry Angst to furnish the room. The group included ceramic tiles and vessels, a piece of sculpture and a piece of embroidery, a metal latch, as well as fourteen piece of furniture), acquired as museum nos. 76 to 105-1908, and 131-1908.

Comparable objects
Ferenc Batári, and Erzsébet Vadászi ; edited by Elvira Király : Art of furniture-making from the Gothic to the Biedermeier: European Furniture from the 15th to the 19th Century in the Nagytétény
Castle Museum ([Budapest : Museum of Applied Arts], 2002.), nos.9 and 21, p.14 (Transylvania c1500, Hungary 1598)

81-1908