Apter-Fredericks

Important 18th & 19th Century Antique Furniture

Dining Furniture
A Fine Regency Period Mahogany Extending Dining Table

SOLD - A Fine Regency Period Mahogany Extending Dining Table

Height: 28 " 72cm
Width: 66" 1m 68
Length: 16' 2" 4m 92

The rounded rectangular top with reeded edge and four additional and original leaves. The drop leaf centre section on six turned and reeded legs with gate action and terminating in brass socket castors. The end pedestals each with a turned and ringed tapering column on four splay reeded legs ending in brass lions' paw castors. The table still retaining its original two handled polishing weight.

English, Circa 1810

The Graham-Stirling Family, Rednock House, Perthshire, Scotland.

The table was acquired by Lieutenant-General Alexander Graham-Stirling (1769-1849) possibly from Gillow of Lancaster, and was photographed in the dining room at Rednock.
The family owned extensive lands in Perthshire and a number of notable properties, including Duchray Castle, a late 16th century tower house near Aberfoyle, immortalised in Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy.

Rednock was remodelled in the 1820's for Lieutenant Alexander Graham-Stirling under the supervision of Robert Brown an architect and town planner who undertook much of the design of Edinburgh's city centre and also worked on re-configuring the interior of Yester House at Gifford, East Lothian.