18th c. Welsh Cheese Top Cricket Table

$10,900

18th c. Welsh Cheese Top Cricket Table

SKU: YEWTR00001420 Category:

Description

A desirable Welsh thick top cricket table having good nutty color and patina with 1″+ thick circular oak top over three tapering chamfered legs with through-tenon connections. A sculptural and useful piece of furniture. Notably branded J. Carr, an early owner of the table, possibly James Carr, a Wesleyan minister, whose descendants include among others a prominent British newspaper owner of the News of the World, a High Sheriff of Glamorgan, a World War II RAF hero who died during the war, and Dame Sue Carr, the current Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales.

Additional information

Dimensions 26.5 in
Country

Wales

Condition

Good antique condition

Material

Oak

Period

18th Century