Table
1630-1670 (made)
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On loan to Woolsthorpe Manor (National Trust).
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Oak |
Brief description | Gate-leg table, English, 1630-70, oak, 78/1207 |
Physical description | Oak, octagonal gate leg table. Folding top with moulded edge, hinged in the centre and supported on a gate with deep rail shaped at the top and bottom. The frieze is carved on the front with symmetrically arranged scrolls of foliage, and with applied wooden 'jewells'. A deep moulding (L shaped), nailed up to the underside of the frieze, survives along the 'back' of the table, but is almost wholly missing from the front. In the centre is a drawer supported on runners. Six ringed baluster legs united by stretchers with moulded edges. The drawer of oak, the sides (with a deep channel), rebated and nailed onto the front, with rectangular-headed nails, the bottom nailed up, and the back nailed onto the sides. Modifications Missing x5 jewelled ornaments on the frieze. |
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Credit line | Given by Mr Frank Green |
Object history | Given by Grank W. Green, Ashwick, Dulverton, Somerset. RP 57/286; 32/1433 From dept file upon receipt of the table: 'Small portions of applied ornament and mouldings missing. Scratched and worn'. On loan to Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire (National Trust), and displayed in the downstairs parlour, 2014. |
Summary | On loan to Woolsthorpe Manor (National Trust). |
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Accession number | W.10-1932 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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