A fine Regency period mahogany extending dining table
£26,000
Auction: 8 December 2006 at 11:00 GMT
Description
in the manner of Gillow of Lancaster, the rounded rectangular top with four additional leaves and reeded edge above a drop leaf centre section on six turned and reeded tapering legs, with gate action and ending in brass socket castors, between a pair of rounded corner end sections with reeded friezes, each on turned and ringed tapering baluster pillars and raised on four downswept reeded sabre legs, ending in brass claw caps and castors, the table is complete with its original two-handled polishing weight
Dimensions
497cm long, 167cm wide, 72cm high
Footnote
Provenance: The Graham - Stirling family, Rednock House, Perthshire, Scotland, and thence by sale to the present owner. This table was acquired by Lieutenant-General Alexander Graham-Stirling (1769-1849) and is pictured here in its original position, but not at its full extent, in the Dining Room at Rednock. The family owned extensive lands in Perthshire and a number of notable properties, including Duchray Castle, a late 16th century tower house near Aberfoyle, immortalised in Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy.
Rednock was remodelled in the late 1820s for Lieutenant Alexander Graham-Stirling under the supervision of Robert Brown an architect and town planner who undertook much of the design of Edinburgh's city centre and also worked on re-configuring the interior of Yester House at Gifford, East Lothian.