A good 19th century Australian full cedar occasional table, circa 1850, the rectangular top with canted corners above a plain frieze over a lyre shaped support on a concaved quatreform platform, raised on turned bun feet. Width 57 cm. Depth 36 cm. Height 75 cm. Literature: & References '19th century Australian furniture', Kevin Fahy, Christina Simpson and Andrew Simpson, David Ell press, Sydney 1985 'Australian furniture, pictorial History & Dictionary 1788 - 1938', Kevin Fahy and Andrew Simpson, Casuarina Press, Sydney 1998 This classical lyre motif was popular with a number of 18th century English furniture designers and appears in furniture made in both Sydney and Hobart from the mid 1830s onwards