Stock ref: DS2875

Circa late 1920s

A rare very early domestic 6′ rectangular refectory style dining table, complete with a set of nine very early burr oak panel backed dining chairs with original interwoven leather upholstery.

The 6′ length table with a three plank adzed and dowelled top, supported on rare and unusual twin adzed cruciform legs with a floor set stretcher. A distinctive and prominent mouse carved to the front facet of one leg. The table prsents with wonderful colour and patina following a sympathetic clean and refinish to accentuate the rich darker fumed and aged colour tones of the wood.

There are nine chairs in total in the set, more than can comfortably be seated around the table, leaving one or more free for use elsewhere around the home. In our experience 6′ dining tables seat 6 in comfort, eight when required, as shown in the image gallery below. The chairs have been re-glued and re-pinned to ensure stability by our professional restoration partner David Podmore at A G Podmore & Sons, York. The frames then sympathetically cleaned and wax polished in-house, the interwoven seat leathers cleaned and re-conditioned, the aim always being to retain originality and patina. The burr oak inlaid back panels are superb and without any breakages.

Excellent provenance, from the estate of James Thompson-Schwab of Kingfield House, Penton, Cumbria whose parents and grandparents were very early clients of Robert’s and commissioned a significant number of pieces, several of which we have been fortunate to acquire and sell recently.

We have a preference to sell the table and chairs as a set, believing it would be a shame to have to split them. However, if it proves difficult to find a new home for the set we will consider offers for the table and chairs sold separately.

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