Sofa table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1810 - circa 1820
Materials
Burr elm, rosewood, calamander, ebony, deal, oak, ormolu, brass
Measurements
71.5 x 152.2 (when extended) x 70.7 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206701
Summary
A burr elm sofa table, English, circa 1815. The top with two drop-leaves and strung with ebony and crossbanded with rosewood. The frieze fitted with two ebony cockbeaded and coromandel-crossbanded drawers. Raised on a pair of ebony-strung waisted end supports, each on a platform and with scroll feet with roundel and anthemion-cast ormolu mounts and with brass castors. The end supports joined by a turned stretcher.
Provenance
Listed in the Inventory taken at Wimpole in 1965 in the Chancellor's Bedroom (p. 7). Date of acquisition not recorded, but probably acquired by George Bambridge (1892 - 1943) and Elsie Bambridge (1896 - 1976), who purchased a largely empty Wimpole in 1938. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Elsie Bambridge.