Lot 253
REGENCY MAHOGANY TWIN PEDESTAL DROP-LEAF DINING TABLE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
£1,000
Auction: Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art
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
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Provenance:
Purchased in these rooms, 5 March, 2014, lot 63
Previously Somerville College, Oxford. It came to the previous owner's family in 1931 from the Secretary at the College.
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.
