Billiard table
Thurston and Co Ltd.
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1890
Materials
Oak, baize top, string pockets
Measurements
88 x 381 x 205 cm
Place of origin
Sharpleshall Street
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Ightham Mote, Kent
NT 825039
Summary
A carved oak billiard table, English, circa 1890. By Thurston & Co. Ltd, with green baize top above a foliate carved narrow upper frieze and deeper lower frieze with intermittent projecting corbels, standing on eight large octagonal legs, with label THURSTON & Co LTD. 1-1A SHARPLESHALL STREET, LONDON NW1.
Provenance
Gift from Mrs. Violet Van Houten, of Crawley, West Sussex, in memory of her husband Mr. Robert Van Houten in 1994. Mr Van Houten had purchased the billiard table from Thurston and Co. Ltd, London in 1976.
Marks and inscriptions
On scoreboard: THURSTON & Co LTD. 1-1A SHARPLESHALL STREET, LONDON NW1.
Makers and roles
Thurston and Co Ltd.