French Butchers Block with Drawer and Fluted Legs
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.
- 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.
- Fluting - A form of decoration found on many pieces of furniture, as well as ceramics, silver and clocks, in which round-bottomed grooves, of varying width and depth, are let into columns, pilasters, legs. As a general rule, flutes are cut in the vertical, though they may follow a turned leg in a spiral pattern. In cross-section, they may be described as a series of 'U' shapes, rising and narrowing at each end of the groove. Fluting is the opposite of reeding, with which fluting is often associated.
This item has been included into following indexes:
Visually similar items
Antique French butcher's block table 85 cm high, 122 cm wide, 60 cm deep
Impressive French Art Deco wooden butchers block table, fitted with two large drawers, shaped splash back with central cast iron cows head, metal surround knife slots, with sticker Renou-Bozier Tours approx 151 cm high, 200 cm wide, 74 cm deep
Old French solid cherry wood provincial farm house table, fitted with a single long drawer at one and a pull out bread board at the other, standing square tapering legs, approx 77 cm high, 200 cm long, 78 cm wide
Victorian mahogany chair with tapered legs and floral, striped cream and gold upholstery