Entry way table

no name on this one

 

Looks like a turn of the century golden oak table that has been poorly treated! Lots of them were made Im sure.

 

Poor thing!

 

Think earlier with those hand cut dovetails. English?

 

"Poorly treated?" Looks like it was owned by Cinderella's stepmother!

 

I love those turned legs, but the state of it brings me to tears.

 

Mouchoirs, all 'round!

 

I think it might be 1830s ish English. I also think it's worth having some work done. The structure looks ok, it's a finishing job.

 

Missing gallery perhaps.

 

Once a beauty and could be again. Nothing a can of stripper and 1000 hours of careful scraping can't fix.

 

Yes there is holes in the back maybe for a mirror? I didn’t get anything that would fit with it

 

These sometimes had a metal or wooden rail - that's the reference to a gallery.

 

I'd have been thinking mirror too, but gallery would be more in keeping with an 1830s date. The mirror would hang on the wall above.

 

I Love it, a great deal of elbow grease and it could be brought back to its former glory, love the legs and feet !!! ... .. Joy.

 

Mm, the more I look, the more I think it had a metal gallery - a very simple brass one.

 

Sorry new to furniture and not sure what a gallery is could you possibly post a picture of it

 

Hang on.

This is a table with a metal gallery:



However, I think yours may have had a far simpler on, perhaps just a metal rod on legs, if that makes sense.

 

A gallery rail usually extends, at least partially, to the sides. Wonder if it might have had just a back-splash. Like this.



Or more elaborate....

 

Those holes don't look to be the kind you'd affix a back splash to - and I'd have also expected the wood to show some evidence of its presence. I realise that top is in poor condition, but there's no darkening or whatever at all.