A small Charles II oak gate leg table
The oval hinged top above a moulded frieze on bobbin turned legs, 67cm wide x 60cm deep x 69cm high, (26in wide x 23 1/2in deep x 27in high)
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Provenance: Sotheby's London, The Moller Collection from Thorncombe Park, Surrey, 18 November 1993, Lot 28Literature: CHINNERY Victor 'Oak Furniture, The British Tradition' 1979, pp. 397-409SYMONDS R.W. 'Gate Leg Tables of the Seventeenth Century', The Antique Collector', April 1947, p.57, fig.10SYMONDS R.W. 'Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England', 1955, p.66, pl.79The small scale of this table suggests that it might originally have been intended for the use of children and may have originally formed part of the furnishings of a late 17th century nursery.