 | Very fine, Regency period, brass inlaid, rosewood center table (Item No. 847)
The circular tilt top with elaborate arabesque banding, finely molded apron, foliate carved and turned rosewood grained stem, incurvate triangular plinth, brass scroll feet, casters. Circa 1805.
Literature: see Margaret Jourdain's definitive book, Regency Furniture: 1795-1830 (revised by Ralph Fastnedge, 1965) illustrates a high-style rosewood center table with similar lobed pedestal, gadrooned collar and extensive brass inlay closely related to that on this lot, page 73, fig. 162.
Dimensions: 29" high by 48¼" diameter
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 | Very fine, Parisian, Neoclassical period, drop-leaf banquet table (Item No. 828)
In solid Cuban mahogany. Six tapered, fluted legs ending in original casters. With original extension mechanism and four later, matching finish, 20" wide, mahogany leaves. Circa 1780.
Dimensions: 30" high by 68" diameter (148" long, fully extended)
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 | Catalan, Baroque period refectory table (Item No. 514)
In solid carved walnut with lyre-shaped legs and wrought-iron stretcher. Late 17th or early 18th century.
Dimensions: 54" wide by 34" deep by 31" high
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 | Extraordinary, Jacob period, drop-leaf banquet table (Item No. 650)
In solid walnut with turned legs ending in brass castors. Fourteen center legs, seventeen original leaves in stained pine. Closed, 63" diameter seats 10-12; seats 45 people when fully opened with original extension mechanism to 32 foot length. Early 19th century.
Dimensions: 63" diameter (closed), 32' long fully extended.
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 | Rare, French, Neoclassical, extension dining table (Item No. 598)
In solid Cuban mahogany, a wood that has been completely deforested. With tapered, fluted legs terminating in casters. Extends with original mechanism to twenty-three feet, seating for thirty people. Late 18th century from Ile de France (region of Paris).
Dimensions: 29" high by 53" round when drop leaves are up, extending up to 23' (276").
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 | French, Provençal, Neoclassical period, oval dining table (Item No. 588)
In solid walnut with "pied Jacob" and drop leaves. Can extend to accommodate five leaves (seating for 16). Early 19th century.
Dimensions: without leaves 54" wide by 58" long by 30" high. With all five leaves, extends to 158" long.
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 | French, Louis XVI period dining table (Item No. 490)
In solid walnut with three finished leaves. 18th century.
Dimensions: 28" high by 58½" wide by 52" long when closed, 108" long with all three leaves
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 | Spanish refectory table (Item No. 309)
Catalan refectory table with characteristic lyre-shaped legs in carved walnut and forged iron stretcher. Late 17th or early 18th century. Extensive provenance available.
Dimensions: 68½ " wide by 29½" deep by 31" high
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 | French, Louis XVI style, demi-lune fold-over table (Item No. 164)
Opens to a 54" round in solid walnut with rosewood banding around the apron, bronze florets above each leg and brass capped feet. 19th century.
Dimensions: 32" high by 52" diameter (open)
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