Stylish Art Deco Zebra Wood Centre or Dining Table

A centre table attributed to Holland and Sons related to a table in Clarence House, this exceptional table has a circular top decorated with six radiating amboyna veneers with a border of concentric marquetry rings. The decoration comprising kingwood bands within boxwood stringing, a continuous boxwood laurel wreath with ivory berries on a satinwood ground and further amboyna borders. The frieze has amboyna crossbanding and applied ormolu sunburst medallions. The support is composed of purpleheart columns inlaid with kingwood, terminating in low splayed feet, which encircle a classical urn on a plinth. The superb ormolu mounts include acanthus leaves, classical masks and patera. English, circa 1860. A table with a similar base and particularly fine ormolu mounts was exhibited by Holland and Sons in the International Exhibition in 1862 and illustrated as plate 40 in J. B. Waring’s book (see pages 100-103 for further references to this exhibition). A further closely related piece was in the collection of the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and is shown in the Morning Room in Clarence House in the Daily Mail’s article ‘Inside the private world of Prince Charles’, November 2018. Originally founded by Stephen Taprell and William Holland...

The four-foot-six circular tilt top with bone, pewter and specimen wood inlays of large swirling, radiating petals in 32 native Ceylonese timbers within feathered bands centred on a flowerhead roundel, the frieze with a stylised leaf-carved and gadrooned ebony edge, raised upon a solid ebony, lobed baluster with four S-scroll and leaf-carved legs, with the original disguised castors. Ceylonese (Sri Lankan), circa 1840. Tables such as this are as identifiable with Ceylonese export furniture of the mid 19th century as specimen marble tops are with Italian Grand Tours and, in very many ways, they served a similar purpose-they were imposing pieces of furniture, clearly demonstrating the status of the owner whilst also suggesting an interest in travel and in the culture and craftsmanship of other countries. As a result, they were very desirable items. The first documentary reference to a centre table of this sort is in an 1833 inventory of the contents of the Governor’s House in Colombo (preserved in the records of the Colonial Office in the National Archives at Kew). The inventory noted: ‘One Table with different woods of Ceylon, ebony feet’ . There are also various references in the diaries of English visitors to Ceylon. In ‘Ceylon and the Ceylonese (London, 1850), vol.II, pp.226-7) Sir Henry Charles wrote that craftsmen at Galle ‘manufactured those exquisite inlaid articles, which far surpass any specimen of Tunbridge ware that has yet been produced – ivory and various native coloured woods are inlaid upon ebony and as the designs are well defined, the effect produced is magnificent’ . What is particularly fascinating about these tables is that they were regularly exhibited at the various international exhibitions of the 19th century and, from surviving accounts and catalogues, this particular style seems to have formed a centrepiece to the Ceylon Courts. Dr Robin Jones, in his article Furniture...

An early Victorian walnut marquetry centre table, attributed to Edward Holmes Baldock, of circular form with a superb quarter veneered burr waln...

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We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely handmade Burr Yew tilt-top dining or occasional centre table. A good looking and well made piece> size wise it can be used as a four...

Maxime Old (1910-1991) Elegant modernist dining or centre table by Maxime Old in French walnut with gracefully curving lines in base and table top edge, bronze mounts France 1940s Re...

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