07-18-201507-18-2015
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2835BBoston
July 18, 2015 10:00 AMCalender
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Elizabethan Oak Withdrawing Table

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$6,150$5,000
Auction: European Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2835BLocation: BostonDate / Time: July 18, 2015 10:00AM

Description:

Elizabethan Oak Withdrawing Table, late 16th/early 17th century, the paneled top above a lunette-carved apron, with draw-leaves at either end, raised on six large cup-and-cover supports, deeply carved with a gadrooned register above the acanthus-carved base, joined by low stretchers on block feet, ht. 32, lg. 120 1/2 (not including additional leaves),dp. 41 3/4 in.

N.B. Illustrated in Fiske & Freeman, Living with Early Oak: Seventeenth-Century English Furniture Then and Now, front cover and p. 6, fig. 1.2.

Provenance: The Sara and Bob Hunt Collection of Early English Oak.
Estimate $10,000-20,000

Overall wear consistent with age and use; cracks evident in cup and cover supports, various cracks/splits in wood, chips, nicks, scuffs, scratches on stretchers, table surface, cup and cover supports, carving. All age typical wear.


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