Breakfast table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1825
Materials
Pollard oak, mahogany, beech, brass ebony
Measurements
71.5 cm (Height); 95 cm (Diameter)
Place of origin
England
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Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1147181
Summary
A pollard oak breakfast, or centre, table, English, circa 1825. The pollard oak-veneered top inlaid with ebony stringing, and tilting on a baluster- and ring-turned column. Secured with a lacquered brass catch. Raised on a concave-sided triform base with bottom edge moulding and raised on three circular, boss-type feet with rear scrolls and brass castors.
Full description
Probably associated with a small collection of pieces of pollard oak furniture at Erddig, one of which [NT 1146943] is labelled for Podmore & Powells, a firm of upholsters and cabinet-makers based in nearby Chester, who were briefly in partnership between 1827 and 1829. In October 1829, the partnership was dissolved and the firm's assets were disposed at an auction on 16 October. Pollard oak was in vogue in the 1820s, and is sometimes called 'brown oak'. In September 2003, Christie's sold a pair of mahogany chiffoniers, bearing the same Podmore & Powells label as the sofa table at Erddig, probably supplied to Richard, 2nd Marquess of Westminster (1795-1869) of Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Now dispersed about the house, the collection of George IV pollard oak furniture at Erddig was probably purchased to furnish a particular room by Simon Yorke II (1771-1834) and his wife Margaret (1778-1848) in the late 1820s. The other pieces made of pollard oak include a pair of sofa tables [NT 1146939.1 & .2] and a set of seat furniture, raised on lyre-shaped supports [NT 1146948].
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973