LATE 16TH CENTURY

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AN ELIZABETHAN OAK TRESTLE TABLE
LATE 16TH CENTURY
With thick single-plank top supported on trestle ends joined by a central stretcher
30 in. (77 cm.) high; 91½ in. (232 cm.) long; 28 in. (71 cm.) deep tapering to 24½ in. (62 cm.)

Provenance

Sir Godfrey Copley Bt., Sprotborough Hall, Yorkshire
S.W.Wolsey, Buckingham Gate, London, purchased by R.T.Gwynn 20 April 1965 for £750
The Peter Gwynn Collection, Sotheby's, 27 November 2001, Lot 23

Literature

R.W.Symonds English Trestle Tables: the Festive Borde, The Connoisseur, December 1939, pg 275
Oak Furniture from Lancashire and the Lake District, Temple Newsam catalogue, 1973, figure 1

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Lot Essay

This table was first recorded in the collection of Sir Godfrey Copley, M.P. and member of the Royal Society, at the end of the 17th century and is known to have been in S.W.Wolsey's shop on Buckingham Gate when it was bombed in 1941.

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