Live Auction 5971An English Look - Robert Kime, Piers von Westenholz, David Bedale and James Graham-Stewart
Christie’s roundel
Lot 544

A GEORGE IV OAK DOUBLE GATE-LEG DINING TABLE

CIRCA 1830, PROBABLY SCOTTISH

Closed8 July 2009

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GBP 4,000

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A GEORGE IV OAK DOUBLE GATE-LEG DINING TABLE
CIRCA 1830, PROBABLY SCOTTISH
The circular top with a beaded edge, on spiral-reeded tapering legs
29 in. (74 cm.) high; 59½ in. (151 cm.) wide extended; 61 in. (155 cm.) deep

Abbotsford House, Melrose, Scotland.

Specialist note

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt. (d.1832) the prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet built Abbotsford in 1825. The house and Scott's collection of historic relics, weapons and armour, and a library of over 9,000 rare books, was opened to the public in 1833.