Vintage Marquetry Burr Walnut Extending Dining Table & 16 Chairs 20th C

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Ref: A3936a

Price: £24,500.00

This is a fantastic Vintage Victorian Revival marquetry dining set, comprising a gorgeous burr walnut and marquetry dining...

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This is a fantastic Vintage Victorian Revival marquetry dining set, comprising a gorgeous burr walnut and marquetry dining room table with the matching set of sixteen chairs, dating from the last quarter of the 20th Century.

The table is made from book matched burr walnut veneers which have a really beautiful colour and grain. It has four leaves which can be added or removed as required to suit the occasion by a special double winding mechanism. When completely wound in, the table is transformed into a circular dining table six feet in diameter. It is raised on six elegantly carved legs for stability and they terminate in brass cup castors.

The table top has a band of exquisite hand cut floral marquetry and this regal decoration includes bouquets of beautiful flowers.

The matching set of sixteen chairs comprises fourteen side chairs and a pair of armchairs. The chairs are made of solid walnut, have been beautifully French polished and upholstered, and the exquiste marquetry decoration is hand cut to match the table. The drop in seats can be removed in hot weather so that the cane seats below can be utilised.

This stunning set would also be appropriate for a dining or conference room, whatever its function it will make a profound impact on your guests and will receive the maximum amount of attention wherever it is placed.

Provenance;

Purchased from an Embassy in a large five storey house in Knightsbridge, London.

Condition:

In excellent condition having all been beautifully cleaned, French polished, waxed and the chairs reupholstered, in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation.

Dimensions in cm:

Height 80 cm x Width 500 cm x Depth 180 cm - fully extended

Height 80 cm x Width 180 cm x Depth 180 cm - when completely closed

Height 105 cm x Width 56 cm x Depth 53 cm - Armchairs

Height 105 cm x Width 48 cm x Depth 46 cm - Side chairs

Height 53 cm - Seat Height

Dimensions in inches:

Height 2 foot, 7 inches x Width 16 foot, 5 inches x Depth 5 foot, 11 inches - fully extended

Height 2 foot, 7 inches x Width 5 foot, 11 inches x Depth 5 foot, 11 inches - when completely closed

Height 3 foot, 5 inches x Width 1 foot, 10 inches x Depth 1 foot, 9 inches - Armchairs

Height 3 foot, 5 inches x Width 1 foot, 7 inches x Depth 1 foot, 6 inches - Side chairs

Height 1 foot, 9 inches - Seat Height

Our reference: A3936a

Please feel free to email or call us (+44 20 8809 9605) to arrange a viewing in our North London warehouse.

Walnut & Burr Walnut

Walnut is a hard, dense, tight- grained wood that polishes to a very smooth finish. It is a popular and attractive wood whose colour ranges from near white in the sapwood to a dark hew in the heartwood. When dried in a kiln, walnut wood tends to develop a dull brown colour, but when air-dried can become a rich purplish-brown. Because of its colour, hardness and grain, it is a prized furniture and carving wood. Walnut veneer was highly priced and the cost would reflect the ‘fanciness’ of the veneer – the more decorative, then the more expensive and desirable.

Burr walnut refers to the swirling figure present in nearly all walnut when cut and polished, and especially in the wood taken from the base of the tree where it joins the roots. However the true burr is a rare growth on the tree where hundreds of tiny branches have started to grow. Burr walnut produces some of the most complex and beautiful figuring you can find.

Walnut "burrs" were often used to make fabulous furniture. Veneer sliced from walnut burl is one of the most valuable and highly prized by cabinet makers and prestige car manufacturers and is also a favourite material for shotgun stocks.

Marquetry
is decorative artistry where pieces of material of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers.

The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique.

Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV. Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs.

Dimensions in cm:

Height 80 cm x Width 500 cm x Depth 180 cm - fully extended

Height 80 cm x Width 180 cm x Depth 180 cm - when completely closed

Height 105 cm x Width 56 cm x Depth 53 cm - Armchairs

Height 105 cm x Width 48 cm x Depth 46 cm - Side chairs

Height 53 cm - Seat Height

Dimensions in inches:

Height 2 foot, 7 inches x Width 16 foot, 5 inches x Depth 5 foot, 11 inches - fully extended

Height 2 foot, 7 inches x Width 5 foot, 11 inches x Depth 5 foot, 11 inches - when completely closed

Height 3 foot, 5 inches x Width 1 foot, 10 inches x Depth 1 foot, 9 inches - Armchairs

Height 3 foot, 5 inches x Width 1 foot, 7 inches x Depth 1 foot, 6 inches - Side chairs

Height 1 foot, 9 inches - Seat Height

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