Stock ref: DS2915

Circa 1950s & later

Currently in our showroom storage area, awaiting a full sympathetic clean and refinish which will include stripping the worn varnish from the top. It will make a fine and interesting piece when completed.

A most interesting 4’6″ kidney shaped coffee table by Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson with a thick adzed single plank top and signature mouse carved to the side edge. Visible wedged joints in the table top confirm it originally stood on four splayed and tapered octagonally carved legs and the overall height would probably have been taller than the current height. It looks to us that one of the legs has broken at some point in the past, likely to be in the 1970s, and a decision was then made cut off the original legs and have a new shorter design of leg professionally made to turn it into a coffee table. It’s not known who made the replacement legs, it doesn’t look like Robert Thompson’s work to us, but is likely to be a well trained craftsman as the joints are typical Yorkshire school pegged and glued construction, the leg design very much in the arts and crafts traditional design.

Provenance: St. Martin’s Prep School at Kirkdale Manor, Nawton, near Helmsley. Gifted to a long standing teacher when the school closed in 2001 and sourced sourced directly from them recently.

Size: 138(l) x 57(w) x 48(h)cm

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