A Stunning Quality Burr Walnut Victorian Period Revolving Drum Table

Name: A Stunning Quality Burr Walnut Victorian Period Revolving Drum Table
Brand: Antique
SKU: SA326551
Availability: SoldOut

19th century

Sold by Christian Davies Antiques Ltd

Description

A stunning quality burr walnut and walnut Victorian Period revolving drum table. Having a shaped top with an inset olive green gilt and blind tooled leather writing surface, having foliate marquetry inlaid detail to the burr walnut veneered border and with floral carved moulding. The top has four "concealed" mahogany lined frieze drawers stamped "Strahan & Co", the whole supported on a turned and carved column with three elegant carved cabriole swept supports and inset brass and porcelain castors circa 1860-1870

Dimensions: 38" diameter x 29" high

The furniture firm of Robert Strahan and Co was founded in 1776. Operating from premises in 10-11 Chancery Lane, by 1815 it was so successful that two new workshops opened at 24-25 Henry Street and 5 Leinster Street in 1845.They displayed their work at Dublin's great industrial exhibition of 1853, where the best examples of Irish design and manufacture were on show. In 1870 the firm moved to Abbey Street and continued to trade under the well-established family name up until 1969. Patronised by the Office of Public Works, the firm designed and manufactured high quality but often unadorned furniture. Other work, however, such as a walnut table exhibited at the second London International Exhibition of 1862, was far more ornate, showing the influence of designers such as Thomas Hope (1769-1831) and Richard Bridgens (1785-1846). Illustrated in the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue for the London exhibition, the table was heavily decorated with intricate marquetry, scrolling foliage, masks, strap work and cartouches. Strahan designed furniture for some of the great Irish country houses such as Doneraile Court, Co. Cork and Lisnavagh, Co. Carlow.

Condition: This drum table is in stunning condition, re-polished in our work-shops and a replacement quality leather insert

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Declaration

Christian Davies Antiques Ltd has dated this piece to the 1870s.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA326551

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Description

A stunning quality burr walnut and walnut Victorian Period revolving drum table.

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Having a shaped top with an inset olive green gilt and blind tooled leather writing surface, having foliate marquetry inlaid detail to the burr walnut veneered border and with floral carved moulding.

Christian Davies Antiques Ltd

The top has four "concealed" mahogany lined frieze drawers stamped "Strahan & Co", the whole supported on a turned and carved column with three elegant carved cabriole swept supports and inset brass and porcelain castors circa 1860-1870

fig 1. A Stunning Quality Burr Walnut Victorian Period Revolving Drum Table

Dimensions: 38" diameter x 29" high

The furniture firm of Robert Strahan and Co was founded in 1776. Operating from premises in 10-11 Chancery Lane, by 1815 it was so successful that two new workshops opened at 24-25 Henry Street and 5 Leinster Street in 1845.They displayed their work at Dublin's great industrial exhibition of 1853, where the best examples of Irish design and manufacture were on show. In 1870 the firm moved to Abbey Street and continued to trade under the well-established family name up until 1969. Patronised by the Office of Public Works, the firm designed and manufactured high quality but often unadorned furniture. Other work, however, such as a walnut table exhibited at the second London International Exhibition of 1862, was far more ornate, showing the influence of designers such as Thomas Hope (1769-1831) and Richard Bridgens (1785-1846). Illustrated in the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue for the London exhibition, the table was heavily decorated with intricate marquetry, scrolling foliage, masks, strap work and cartouches. Strahan designed furniture for some of the great Irish country houses such as Doneraile Court, Co. Cork and Lisnavagh, Co. Carlow.