'refectory' table
Category
Furniture
Date
1600 - 1630
Materials
Oak
Measurements
813 mm (Height); 3250 mm (Length)
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East Riddlesden Hall, West Yorkshire
NT 201181
Summary
Oak refectory table. The top consists of three plain planks, one side has a frieze with conventional inverted S carving and foliage carving. Carved lion's head at top of centre leg and grotesque masks carved over end legs, six turned baluster legs with stretcher surround, stretchers plain except for groove along mid line. Period early 17th Century.
Provenance
Part of a gift of Captain J.H.Brigg, nephew and co-executor of the estate of John Jeremy Brigg of Kildwick Hall nr Keighley. John Jeremy Brigg (1862-1945) and his twin brother, William Anderton Brigg (1862-1935), had purchased East Riddlesden Hall and presented it to the National Trust in 1934, having previously also salvaged various internal fittings removed from the hall earlier in the 20th century. In January 1946 various items of historic interest from their KIldwick house were donated to East Riddlesden Hall by Capt Brigg. The rest of Kildwick Hall and its contents were auctioned shortly afterwards This table is pictured in the dining room at East Riddlesden in a Yorkshire Observer newspaper report on the bequest (19 Feb 1946, p2).