AN IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN CEDAR AND EBONY STRUNG CARDTABLE, ATTRIBUTED TO THE SYDNEY WORKSHOP OF THOMAS SHAUGHNESSY (1779-1837), CIRCA 1815
AN IMPORTANT AUSTRALIAN CEDAR AND EBONY STRUNG CARDTABLE, ATTRIBUTED TO THE SYDNEY WORKSHOP OF THOMAS SHAUGHNESSY (1779-1837), CIRCA 1815Estimate $60,000 – $80,000
the rectangular top with a cross-banded and ebony inlaid border above a plain frieze with a central raised panel with ebonised beaded decoration, on a square tapering column with a conforming beaded collar with ebony inlay on a quatreform platform, raised on four outswept reeded legs with brass castors; 96CM WIDE, 48CM DEEP, 71CM HIGH;
LITERATURE This table has the identical column and quatreform base as the sofa table, plate 536, Australian Furniture, Pictorial History & Dictionary, 1788-1938, Kevin Fahy, Andrew Simpson, Casuarina Press, Sydney, 1998