Live Auction 6359Christie's Interiors - Masters & Makers
AN ELIZABETHAN OAK TRESTLE TABLE
Lot 10 THE GWYNN TABLE

AN ELIZABETHAN OAK TRESTLE TABLE

LATE 16TH CENTURY

Closed21 June 2011

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GBP 16,250

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AN ELIZABETHAN OAK TRESTLE TABLE
LATE 16TH CENTURY
With thick single-plank top supported on trestle ends joined by a central stretcher
30 in. (77 cm.) high; 91½ in. (232 cm.) long; 28 in. (71 cm.) deep tapering to 24½ in. (62 cm.)

Sir Godfrey Copley Bt., Sprotborough Hall, Yorkshire
S.W.Wolsey, Buckingham Gate, London, purchased by R.T.Gwynn 20 April 1965 for £750
The Peter Gwynn Collection, Sotheby's, 27 November 2001, Lot 23

Specialist note

This table was first recorded in the collection of Sir Godfrey Copley, M.P. and member of the Royal Society, at the end of the 17th century and is known to have been in S.W.Wolsey's shop on Buckingham Gate when it was bombed in 1941.