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Important 18th & 19th Century Antique Furniture

Dining Furniture
A Regency Period Mahogany Double Cumberland Dining-Table

SOLD - A Regency Period Mahogany Double Cumberland Dining-Table

Height: 28 " 72cm
Width: 50 "" 129cm
Length: 12' 4"" 376cm

The table having a well figured top supported by twin Cumberland action supports of turned columns above downswept reeded legs terminating in brass box castors.

English, Circa 1800

By tradition the first Cumberland-action dining-table was made for Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, 4th son of Frederick, Prince of Wales and brother of George III. He was a patron of John Linnell in the mid-1770s so it is possible that he was the first recipient of a sophisticated design which is a development of the double gate leg table, adapted so that the legs spread the weight without obstructing people sitting at it.