Lot 63
REGENCY TWIN PEDESTAL DINING TABLE
CIRCA 1815
Auction: 5 March 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
the rounded rectangular top on twin pedestal supports, each end with a drop leaf over a frieze drawer to one side and a dummy drawer opposing, raised on turned column supports ending on four outswept legs ending in brass caps and casters, with one leaf extension
Dimensions
221cm long, 71.5cm high, 111.5cm deep
Footnote
Provnance: Previously Somerville College, Oxford. Reportedly the boardroom table at Somerville, it came to the present owner's family in 1931 from the Secretary at the College and has remained in the family to the present day.
Note: Founded in 1879, Somerville College, Oxford was among the first colleges in the country to be created to allow women to benefit from higher education. It was named after Mary Somerville, an important scientist of the nineteenth century and also an author, mathematician, astronomer, landscape artist and suffragette. Illustrious alumnae include Dorothy Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher. Male undergraduates first gained admission in 1994.