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A Most Important and striking Musk wood early colonial…
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Hobart
Date:
7-Dec-2008
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A Most Important and striking Musk wood early colonial exhibition centre table Tasmanian, Circa 1835-45 120 x 73 cm A fine rare example in this genre, cross-banded frieze and supported on a faceted centre column with restrained decorative collar on a triform base and scroll carved feet. One of the earliest documented centre tables. One other known in Muskwood : ref K. Vidler G. Dodd 1988 Commemorative Collection of Fine Colonial Furniture p. 114. Note: Musk is a tree of small diameter when mature and is usually used only as veneer. It has beautiful and distinctive grain. The Catalogue of the Universal Exhibition of Industry at Paris in 1855 gives this honourable notation to Musk Wood: It is chiefly esteemed as yielding one of the handsomest of the cabinet woods of the colony, its growth being small, and irregular; the slabs for the carpenter and cabinetmaker are only obtained from an annular enlargement of the trunk, near the root, where the wood is generally veined, waved and dotted in forms and figures the most graceful and varied and in tints at once soft and harmonious to the eye. Diameter 120 cm, 73 cm high. Provenance: Private Collection, Nsw
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