Regent Antiques has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
The bar back chairs with curved top rails above scrolled horizontal splats. The overstuffed drop in seats above reeded seat rails, they are raised on elegant sabre legs, and they have been reupholstered in a sumptuous blue velvet.
The fourteen chairs comprising thirteen side chairs and a carver for the head of table.
It is rare to find such a large, fabulous and comfortable set of chairs and they enhance this dining table beautifully.
The table is made of stunning solid flame mahogany and is raised on three "gun barrel" turned columns on quadruple swept sabre leg bases which are fitted with brass toes and castors.
This table was purchased at great expense from the master cabinet maker William Tillman, Crouch Lane, Borough Green Kent in the 1980s.
The table has two leaves which can be added or removed as required to suit the occasion. This makes it a versatile dining table which can comfortably seat twelve people.
The underside bears labels for William Tillman and is stamped 443A.
Condition:
In excellent condition the table having been beautifully cleaned, polished and waxed and the chairs polished and reupholstered in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 74 x Width 390 x Depth 114 - Fully Extended
Height 74 x Width 268 - With both leaves removed
Height 88 x Width 50 x Depth 53 - Side chairs
Height 88 x Width 58 x Depth 61 - Arm chair
Height 46 - Seat Height
Dimensions in inches:
Height 2 foot, 5 inches x Width 12 foot, 9 inches x Depth 3 foot, 9 inches - Fully Extended
Height 2 foot, 5 inches x Width 8 foot, 9 inches - With both leaves removed
Height 2 foot, 11 inches x Width 1 foot, 8 inches x Depth 1 foot, 9 inches - Side chairs
Height 2 foot, 11 inches x Width 1 foot, 11 inches x Depth 2 foot - Arm chair
Height 1 foot, 6 inches - Seat Height
William Tillman
William Tillman was making fine reproduction furniture from the1970's until his retirement at the end of the 1990's and his work is considered to be of the highest quality and collected throughout the world. It has been sold in all of the famous London Stores including Harrods,Peter Jones and Maples and will almost certainly be considered important antique furniture of the future.
Every piece of furniture was produced with the utmost skill and knowledge to ensure that the finished article would bear the most critical comparison with the original. Whilst the polish used was resistent to heat and water, the finished surface has a wax patination similar to that found on early furniture.
Tillman pieces won the British Furniture Manufacturers, Showpiece of the Year award in three consecutive years.
Flame Mahogany
Thomas Sheraton - 18th century furniture designer, once characterized mahogany as "best suited to furniture where strength is demanded as well as a wood that works up easily, has a beautiful figure and polishes so well that it is an ornament to any room in which it may be placed." Matching his words to his work, Sheraton designed much mahogany furniture. The qualities that impressed Sheraton are particularly evident in a distinctive pattern of wood called "flame mahogany."
The flame figure in the wood is revealed by slicing through the face of the branch at the point where it joins another element of the tree.
Our reference: A1060c
Regent Antiques has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
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