Federation Walnut Side Table with Turned Legs and Drawer
You must be a subscriber, and be logged in to view price and dealer details.
Subscribe Now to view actual auction price for this item
When you subscribe, you have the option of setting the currency in which to display prices to $Au, $US, $NZ or Stg.
- Turned Legs - are legs which have been turned on a lathe. In use from the 16th century, turned legs on tables, chairs and cabinets became more frequent until, by the 1830s, the Georgian square or tapered leg was rarely found except in country pieces.
- Federation Period - The Federation style in architecture and furniture is broadly the Australian equivalent of the English Edwardian period and extended from 1890 to 1915. The name relates to Australia becoming a Federation in 1901, when the colonies became the Commonwealth of Australia.
- Turning - Any part of a piece of furniture that has been turned and shaped with chisels on a lathe. Turned sections include legs, columns, feet, finials, pedestals, stretchers, spindles etc. There have been many varieties and fashions over the centuries: baluster, melon, barley-sugar, bobbin, cotton-reel, rope-twist, and so on. Split turning implies a turned section that has been cut in half lengthwise and applied to a cabinet front as a false decorative support.
This item has been included into following indexes:
Visually similar items
Full cedar colonial two drawer side table (c. 1870) with original polish 74 cm high, 106 cm wide, 47 cm deep
A French walnut and cross banded single drawer ladies writing desk with brass mounts. 74 cm high, 90 cm long, 52 cm wide
A Georgian English mahogany gate leg games table with reeded edge top above turned legs 91 x 42 x 75 cm
A George III style mahogany Gallery edge writing table, English, 20th century. 80 cm high, 91 cm wide, 50 cm deep