Object Description
No10937
A rare Regency Mahogany Pocock’s Patent Sympathetic Extending Dining Table, the rounded rectangular top with reeded edge and a dummy drawer at both ends, stamped “Pocock’s Patent” and with a brass trade plate engraved “Patent Sympathetic Tables by Pocock, Southampton Street, Covent Garden” and numbered “15”, raised on four splayed central pedestal legs with brass caps and castors, with four numbered leaves to fit between the two removable end leaves.
The construction of this table is ingenious as it can be extended by one person and will only all fit together in one sequence. It has the added benefit of being entirely supported on the one central pillar allowing diners to be seated all around the table without having to place chairs between the table’s legs.
Circa 1805
Price: £12,500-00p.
Shut: Height: 27.5”, 70 cms / Width: 53”, 135 cms / Depth: 47”, 119.5 cms.
Fully opened extends to 108”, 274.5 cms. X 47″, 119.5cms