AN IMPORTANT EARLY AUSTRALIAN CEDAR SOFA TABLE, CIRCA 1820

• Lot Sold $90,000 (Hammer Price)
• $108,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

the rectangular top with matching cedar panels and a thumb moulded edge with drop leaf flaps above a pair of drawers with line inlaid decoration and conforming dummy drawers to the back, above a tapering square column with double knulled back on a quatreform platform, raised on four reeded legs with prominent knees terminating in ornate cast brass castors; 102.5CM WIDE, 65CM DEEP, 71CM HIGH;

NOTE This table is one of only a handful of early Colonial sofa tables known to exist and as such is a very important and rare example;

LITERATURE Australian Furniture, Pictorial History and Dictionary, 1788-1938, Kevin Fahy, Andrew Simpson, Casuarina Press, Sydney, 1998, page 472, plate 537.

PROVENANCE Purchased by the present owner from W.F. Bradshaw in 1978 who is believed to have purchased it from a Miss Brooks whose family were the second family to own Denham Court. This would suggest that the sofa table was originally part of the Brooks' furnishings here at Denham Court;