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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 250130, member: 2844&quot;]Your table is from the province of North Brabant in the south of The Netherlands, near the Belgian border. It is a style I&#039;ve seen a lot from the furniture-making villages of Oirschot and Oisterwijk in North Brabant, not far from where I live.</p><p>The crest is the Brabant lion, which is also in the coat of arms of neighbouring Belgium:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fa%2Fa7%2FCoat_of_arms_of_Brabant.svg%2F918px-Coat_of_arms_of_Brabant.svg.png&amp;sp=ecd5d4ad01c73c3237a619d636264041" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>These tables were made a lot from the 1930s-50s, the heyday of a Brabant cultural movement called Brabantia Nostra. My parents knew a lot of artists who were part of the movement, and this furniture was everywhere in my early childhood.</p><p>North Brabant was always seen as backward by the dominant Dutch provinces of Holland. Brabant culture and religion had been suppressed for centuries, and the province was treated as a colony.</p><p>The idea of the Brabantia Nostra movement was to give the people some confidence and pride in their own culture, and their Brabant lion of course.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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