Antique Lacquered Chess Table on Turned Column Base
You must be a subscriber, and be logged in to view price and dealer details.
Subscribe Now to view actual auction price for this item
When you subscribe, you have the option of setting the currency in which to display prices to $Au, $US, $NZ or Stg.
- Column - An architectural feature sometimes used for decorative effect and sometimes as part of the supporting construction. Columns should generally taper slightly towards the top. They may be plain or decorated with carving, fluting or reeding. Columns may be fully rounded or, more commonly, half-rounded and attached with glue, screws or pins to the outer stiles of doors, or the facing uprights on cabinets and bureaux.
- Turning - Any part of a piece of furniture that has been turned and shaped with chisels on a lathe. Turned sections include legs, columns, feet, finials, pedestals, stretchers, spindles etc. There have been many varieties and fashions over the centuries: baluster, melon, barley-sugar, bobbin, cotton-reel, rope-twist, and so on. Split turning implies a turned section that has been cut in half lengthwise and applied to a cabinet front as a false decorative support.
This item has been included into following indexes:
Visually similar items
A colonial New Zealand timbers inlaid chess table of octagonal form on turned column and tripod base. Height 72 cm. Diameter 70 cm. Provenance: Ruth Simon Estate, Sydney
An inlaid chess table on later pedestal 53 cmdia
A Victorian mahogany, drop-side chess table, by James Burrey, Shrewsbury c.1880's, the top inlaid with rosewood and satinwood Chequer board squares, upon a turned pedestal and carved cabriole leg base, the table has two single drawers, one containing a mak
Victorian walnut sewing/work table, with marquetry decoration to top, on carved pedestal and platform base, with fitted interior compartments, width 49.5 cm x 35.5 cm