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A superb exhibition table top, c1840, displaying a double 10…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
3-Jun-2014
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Description:
A superb exhibition table top, c1840, displaying a double 10 pointed star motif inlaid with blackwood, cedar, eucalyptus, golden ash, huon pine, musk & white ash. All timbers are beautifully book matched & veneered onto a cedar carcass. Fine & elegantly carved cedar tri-form base with acanthus column & feet, complete with full tongues. Tables of this quality are extremely scarce & even rarer with original patina. Featured on the front endpaper of 'Australian Furniture Pictorial History & Dictionary 1788-1938' by Kevin Fahy & Andrew Simpson [Syd, 1998]. Height 74 cm, diameter 124 cm
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Furniture: Tables - zOther