For all you furniture lovers

Is there a question, or are you just sharing a recent find?

 

Just sharing it's a 17th century little table original I left it as is just gave it a wax beautiful little table

 

Do you really mean it is from the 1600s?
With those legs I would have though quite a bit later. However, I am not a furniture guru.

 

Yeah it is I had a feeling but got it sent off and valued the handles and typical of that age too nice find for 60 euro lol

 

Very nice little table. I'm a fan of the turned leg & stretcher 17th c. pieces

 

Isn't it amazing how they could turn legs like that by hand way back then? Real craftsmanship!

 

There's some videos on line of how it was done with hand driven lathes. That's a lovely little thing: you can see the irregularity of a hand made table and the hands that have used it for centuries.

 

Thy are beautiful one of my favourite periods and regency I have this regency open waterfall bookcase I picked up too I'll put up a pic

 

I know amazing . When u think of the dirt they make now and people pay a lot for when u can go to auction and pick up a little beauty like that for very little when your lucky . It will last a few more hundred years

 

Must look them up . I know I love wondering in all that time how many lives it has passed and how many things it's seen and many more to come I only own a couple pieces of modern the rest of the stuff in my home is antique

 

No, isn't from 1600s or 17th century, more likely 19th century

They are called Fishtail drops, popular in england 1670-1690

They are called "pole lathes" operated from a pole overhead with a string attached to a foot treadle

 

Although not an expert on early english furniture, I don't think your table is period (17th century), more likely a 19th century repro.
For one thing it would be built from riven oak (split) not sawn timber, the drawer would be side hung (can't see from photo) & the "fishtail" drop would not be attached to back of drawer like that. Naturally, I could be wrong about this.

 

I had it sent to two auction houses as a friend of mine owns a large antique buisness that does sets for period films and ads he definitely said it is you would have to see it . My dad is a good furniture man too

 

And it is oak

 

Yes, it is oak, the question becomes, is it riven oak or sawn oak, two different ways of processing oak trees. Riven is where the timber is split along it's radial plane with hammer & wedges into boards and sawn is where saws are used to mill into boards.

 

It's very hard until u see the items hard when looking a pictures it sits proud in my hall love it thanks for that

 

True, photographs miss a lot of construction details that are easy to see in person, i am not sure why exactly.

 

So true u see the cut of the timber and how every piece is made

 

Could you show us how the drawer is put together, please.