Drum table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1820
Materials
Mahogany, deal, beech, oak, ebony, brass
Measurements
72 cm (Height); 122 cm (Diameter)
Place of origin
England
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Saltram, Devon
NT 871368
Summary
A mahogany and ebony-strung library or drum table, English, circa 1820. The circular top fitted with four frieze drawers and four false frieze drawers, all inlaid with ebony lines. Raised on a turned pillar and four hipped and reeded downswept supports fitted with acanthus-cast brass caps and castors.
Provenance
Date of introduction to Saltram not recorded, but at Saltram by 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877 - 1951), 4th Earl of Morley.