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A VERY LARGE EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY TELESCOPIC-ACTION EXTENDING 'IMPERIAL' DINING TABLE
Lot 191 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A VERY LARGE EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY TELESCOPIC-ACTION EXTENDING 'IMPERIAL' DINING TABLE

ALMOST CERTAINLY BY GILLOWS, MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed16 September 2014

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A VERY LARGE EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY TELESCOPIC-ACTION EXTENDING 'IMPERIAL' DINING TABLE
ALMOST CERTAINLY BY GILLOWS, MID-19TH CENTURY
With seven additional original leaves, supported on eight legs with brass caps and castors stamped COPE & / COLLINSON/ PATENT/ STRONG
29 in. (74 cm.) high; 212 ½ in. (17 ft. 8 ½ in. or 540 cm.) long, fully extended; 60 ½ in. (153.5 cm.) deep

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This enormous table, of dense Cuban mahogany, is supported on legs with identical profile to numerous "Imperial dining table" sketches in Gillows' Estimate Sketch Books from c.1825 to c.1860. See also S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, London, 2008, vol. I, pp. 244-246 for executed tables with identical legs and telescopic actions.