Italian Fold Down Work Table with Drawer and Turned Supports
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.
- Stretcher - A horizontal rail which connects the legs of stools, chairs, tables and stands, to provide stabilisation of the legs. A stretcher table is any table with a stretcher base. The term is usually applied to substantial farmhouse tables, although many cabinetmaker's pieces, such as sofa tables, also have turned stretchers.
- Rail - A term used by cabinet makers for the horizontal sections of the frame of an item such as a chair or settee which have a front rail, a back rail and two side rails, and also on a door or carcase, where the rails are joined to the vertical framings.
- 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
Australian cedar three drawer hall table, circa 1870, brass bucket casters, 74 cm high, 124 cm long, 45 cm deep
A late 17th century English oak side table, circa 1680 the rectangular plank top above a channel edge moulded frieze drawer, raised on baluster ring turned legs, joined by rear and front mid stretchers and conforming H-stretcher, on turned legs 73 cm high,
Australian cedar hall table late 19th century, 76 cm high, 101 cm long, 45 cm deep
An Australian blackwood hall table, Tasmanian origin, circa 1860 75 cm high, 98 cm wide, 44 cm deep