Table
Category
Furniture
Date
1650 - 1750
Materials
Oak, Walnut
Measurements
735 x 910 mm; 1310 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Cotehele
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Cotehele, Cornwall
NT 347839.6
Caption
This table was probably made on the Cotehele estate during the 17th century. It is one of seven similar tables in Cotehele House, of which only one retains its original folding mechanism. They are known as 'Spanish Tables', in the belief that the design was copied from folding tables salvaged from the wreckage of the Spanish Armada. Cotehele's tables may have been made for Colonel Piers Edgcumbe (1610-66) who took up residence here during the 1650s, and extensively remodelled the interior.
Summary
Table. One of seven similar tables with folding supports of plain design. Oak and walnut. According to Victor Chinnery (2004): An oak and walnut folding table, the two-plank mitre-framed walnut top fitted on the underside with two cross-battens to which are hinged a pair of oak open folding frames falling to form legs and now held in position by angled wooden braces. One muntin to the frame stamped II. English, c.1650-1750.
Provenance
According to Victor Chinnery (2004): Date of acquisition unknown, but recorded with others at Cotehele in Nicholas Condy’s views, c.1840.