A Superb English Mid 19th C Exhibition Quality Satinwood And Marquetry Centre Or Library Table.

Code: 807200

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This most impressive exhibition quality best Indian satinwood centre or library table has the most fantastic marquetry top veneered in burr satinwood and profusely decorated with flowers and foliage set within panelled boarders of inlaid foliate scrolls, all worked in a wide selection of distinctive exotic timbers. This rare table is of the very best quality available at this period. Below its magnificent top is a shallow frieze which is supported at each end of the table on double turned and carved twisted columns which are separated in the centre with a small baluster turned section which is decorated with finely turned roundels. From this, the table has a matching central stretcher. The columns are supported at each end onto a shaped and bracketed end platform which is raised onto finely turned bun feet which house original sunken brass castors designed to ease movement and position of the table. Circa 1850