A Fine & Decorative Regency Giltwood & Gesso Torchère c.1820 sub-Antiques solid wood construction and unpretentious

solid wood construction and unpretentious simplicity

The nineteenth century oak refectory table having an associated rectangular three-plank heavy set top with a fourteen inch overhang to each end

and it closed in 1978

the top in two sections

dates it to the 1870s-1890s

A Fine & Decorative Regency Giltwood & Gesso Torchère c.1820 sub-Antiques solid wood construction and unpretentiousOrigin: Probably English Possibly Italian Period: Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1815 25 Height: 38 inches Base Diameter: 11 inches (at maximum) The giltwood and gesso torchre with a circular dish top over a stiff leafed column, fronted by a lion salient on a rocky outcrop formed base survives from the Regency period. The torchre is in fair to good overall order, it has suffered damage to its base with some loss to the mouldings