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<p>[QUOTE="bluemoon, post: 160608, member: 1296"]Upon further analysis I'd say [USER=37]@verybrad[/USER] and [USER=993]@GaleriaGila[/USER] that by googleing it, I wasn't able to find anything that looked even slightly similar to this, called</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>All the Asian tables I viewed on Google had more shapely "feet" (compare to the flat ones of the table in question)</p><p><br /></p><p>However, according to the sellers, the table was originally (before they re-finished it) red toned brown.</p><p><br /></p><p>One theory suggests it's a swedish 18th-19th century rococo table that was originally higher and someone chopped the feet at some point. Can you imagine that? The table is around 72cm high though, so I don't know if it could have been much higher to begin with.. But see the second example down below, it has the same silhouette and probably isn't modified either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some examples of mid-late 18th c. and early 19th c. rococo tables from Sweden:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.romarehylte.com/files/mbordrokokotom.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://antikhandlarna.se/img/product/dealerId/14/4070725771895.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://casteliusantik.com/wp-content/uploads/Rokokobord-2-455x455.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bluemoon, post: 160608, member: 1296"]Upon further analysis I'd say [USER=37]@verybrad[/USER] and [USER=993]@GaleriaGila[/USER] that by googleing it, I wasn't able to find anything that looked even slightly similar to this, called All the Asian tables I viewed on Google had more shapely "feet" (compare to the flat ones of the table in question) However, according to the sellers, the table was originally (before they re-finished it) red toned brown. One theory suggests it's a swedish 18th-19th century rococo table that was originally higher and someone chopped the feet at some point. Can you imagine that? The table is around 72cm high though, so I don't know if it could have been much higher to begin with.. But see the second example down below, it has the same silhouette and probably isn't modified either. Some examples of mid-late 18th c. and early 19th c. rococo tables from Sweden: [IMG]http://www.romarehylte.com/files/mbordrokokotom.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://antikhandlarna.se/img/product/dealerId/14/4070725771895.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://casteliusantik.com/wp-content/uploads/Rokokobord-2-455x455.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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