Draw-leaf table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1560 - 1570
Materials
Turned and joined oak
Measurements
85.5 x 311 x 93 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sizergh Castle, Cumbria
NT 998157
Summary
An oak table, English, circa 1560 - 1570, but later modified. Originally a draw-leaf or 'withdrawing' table, with two leaves sitting beneath the top, now lacking. The top a single piece of oak, cleated all round. The fluted columnar and ring-turned legs with unusual round-section tenon blocks at top and bottom, on trestle-type sledge feet, joined by stretchers. -- Almost certainly part of the furnishings bought by the Stricklands during their refurbishment of the castle in the late 1550s and 1560s. Possibly one of five 'long meit tables' noted in a list of 'woodewarke' at Sizergh on 28 June 1569.
Provenance
Given by Henry Hornyold Strickland (1890 – 1975) with Sizergh Castle and its estates in 1950.