Lot 465
WILLIAM IV OAK WORK TABLE
CIRCA 1835
Auction: 30 June 2010 at 12:00 BST
£2,500
Description
the circular dish top opening to reveal a lined void interior, above a rosette applied frieze and raised on a reeded turned column support ending in a carved triform base with scroll feet
Dimensions
42cm diameter, 75cm high
Footnote
Provenance: Kinnaird Estate, Dunkeld, Perthshire.
Note: the top bears a brass inset plaque "The Oak of which this table is made was under the foundations of Old London Bridge, upwards of six hundred & fifty six years and taken up from thence in 1833 by, Sir Edward Banks and William John Jolliffe Esq, the contractors & builders of, New London Bridge"
For a similar example see: Christie's English & Continental Furniture, Tapestries and Works of Art Sale, London 19th February, 2003, lot 436.