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Early Victorian Amboyna Centre Table by Taprell Holland & Sons
Certified DealerApproved listing348 sales by dealer
Certified DealerApproved listing348 sales by dealer
Description
This is a fine 19th Century (c.1840) English Victorian antique amboyna centre table by Taprell and Holland & Sons, the circular top set on a gadrooned baluster support terminating in petals with an ebony collar, all on a circular base with three bun feet, decorated with ebony inlays comprising a chain design within slender borders, bead and reel edging, further gadrooning and rosettes.
Footnote:-
Stephen Taprell set up as a cabinet maker, upholsterer, chair and sofa manufacturer in 1803. In 1835 his partner, William Holland, a relative of the famous Regency architect Henry Holland, took over and traded until 1843 as Taprell, Holland and Sons. After 1846, as Holland and Sons, the company became one of the greatest furnishing firms of the Victorian period. Queen Victoria commissioned them to supply Osborne House, Windsor Castle, Balmoral and also the new Houses of Parliament. Granted the Royal Warrant in 1846, they exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and were represented at all the major exhibitions thereafter.
measurements
Height:
28.5 in
Width:
50.25 in
Depth:
50.25 in
Diameter:
50.25 in
measurements
declaration
Wick Antiques Ltd has clarified that the Early Victorian Amboyna Centre Table by Taprell Holland & Sons (LA481957) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1840