With a truly superb colour and patina, this beautiful George II tilt top table with a planked yew wood top and solid yew wood column and base..This is a provincial piece of furniture made from the most beautiful timber grown in the British Isles. A lovely vernacular piece which would have been used in a rural domestic setting as a supper table, tea or wine table. The tilt top allowed the table to be stored neatly when not in use..Yew trees are evergreen and were often planted next to Christian churches because they represent eternal life and resurrection. Pagans also planted yew trees in their most sacred places and early Christian churches were frequently built on these sites with the early yew trees retained..Yews are extremely slow growing and have unusual healing capacity which enables the trees to recover from storm and lightning damage. There are yew trees in the UK known to be more than 3,000 years old and in Europe some are believed to be as old as 9,000...