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Description
Comprising two rounded rectangular ends, each on a rectangular support with reeded outscrolled legs, with concertina action extending to enclose four leaves on ring-turned tapering legs, with brass caps and castors, ten brass clips, with two inset brass plaques inscribed 'EDWARDS PATENT NE PLUS ULTRA DIEU ET MON DROIT'
Please note that each of four leaves of approximately 63cm in length can be removed as required to adjust the table length (i.e. with 3 leaves table length is 334cm).
This form of expanding table has been named a 'Cumberland' table, possibly after Cumberland Lodge, Windsor.
Literature-+
1) C. Jones, Colefax & Fowler - The Best in English Interior Decoration, New York, London, a.o., 3rd edn., 1998, p. 182 (illustrated).
2) The die-stamped patent label of the King Street cabinet-maker David Edwards (d. 1848) appears in similar reed-framed tablets on the trestle pillars of other tables with Grecian-scrolled 'claws' (C. Gilbert, The Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, figs. 310-312).
3) This form of expanding table has been named a 'Cumberland' table, possibly after Cumberland Lodge, Windsor. In the early 1820's Edwards is listed in George IV's Household Accounts, which are now preserved in the Windsor Archives (C. Gilbert and G. Beard, The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, p. 269).
Details
Artist / Maker
Edwards, D. (British, active first half 19th Century)
Country of Origin
Date of Manufacture
Early 19th Century
Period
Style
Materials
Colour
Dimensions
Height
74 cm / 29.1 inches
Width
131 cm / 51.6 inches
Depth
397 cm / 156.3 inches
Reference:
007815
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