SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A TASMANIAN HUON PINE, MUSK AND BLACKWOOD WORK TABLE
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Decorated with bands of contrasting veneer divided by feather banding around a central compass and with similar spandrels on a cedar carcase, and with a beaded drawer in the frieze, on a turned pedestal and concave sided platform base with scrolled toes and brass castors
28½in. (73cm.) high, 24in. (61cm.) wide, 17½in. (45cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The decoration on this table is typically Tasmanian, including the compass motif and conforming spandrels, and the dog-tooth banding. This table bears comparison with the work of the cabinet maker John Brown. The Launceston Examiner, 7 March 1849, noted that he had several examples of colonial woods on display made into various articles of furniture "which for workmanship and elegance of design could not be surpassed in this or any other part of the world". He exhibited a loo table of Huon pine and blackwood with similar inlay at The Great Exhibition, London, 1851. See Kevin Fahy and Andrew Simpson, Australian Furniture Pictorial History and Dictionary, Woollahra, 1998

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