A RARE MID 17TH CENTURY OAK TABLE CHAIR, SOUTH LANCASHIRE/CH...

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63 - A RARE MID 17TH CENTURY OAK TABLE CHAIR, SOUTH LANCASHIRE/CHESHIRE, CIRCA 1640-1660. The twin board ...

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A RARE MID 17TH CENTURY OAK TABLE CHAIR, SOUTH LANCASHIRE/CHESHIRE, CIRCA 1640-1660. The twin board pivotal top carved with a grape and vine rail above applied dentils, the back carved with floral quatrefoils around a floral arcade inset with leaves, grapes and carnation flower, the bold curved arms on baluster supports and heavy plank seat above a frieze rail with original lunette carved drawer flanked by owner initials E H, on ring and baluster turned legs joined by plain stretchers, 126cm high 58cm wide Note - 17th Century Table Chairs are scarce items, not specific to any regions, this chair being one of an identified group of south Lancashire/Cheshire versions. For a similar chair from the same workshop see: Bonhams Oak Interior, 20 September, 2017, Lot 555. Literature - See Ralph Edwards The Dictionary of English Furniture (1986), Vol I, p. 323, fig. 5, for a similar carved chair-table, in the National Museum of Wales Provenance - Phillips Chester, Gayton Hall Sale, Gayton, Wirral, Cheshire, 7 September 1996.

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+ Calendar 2025-03-19 11:00:00 2025-03-19 23:59:59 Europe/London The Beedham Collection Part II The Beedham family has been collecting early oak furniture and related works of art for over 70 years, however, the origins of this collection goes even further back. Historically, the Beedham family ran pubs in the South Yorkshire area for over 250 years and in former times it was custom and practice that an incoming pub landlord would take over the whole of the items in the establishment from the previous landlord. It was in this way the Beedham Collection really started. Herbert Beedham, my father, was the first of the family to leave the public house trade and he started up his own Antique business, and brought to the business a wealth of furniture and objects which had been passed down by the family over many years. Herbert had a great passion for early items and would regularly visit the antique and ‘junk’ shops of Sheffield, coming back, much to my mother’s dismay, with yet more antiques and collectables. It was during this time he struck up a friendship with the curator of the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield who introduced Herbert to the, at that time, unknown L S Lowry, from whom he subsequently tried desperately and sadly unsuccessfully to buy a painting. Herbert’s greatest passion was to collect Tudor and Elizabethan Manor House furniture and objects. A Daily Telegraph reporter once visited his shop and wrote an article in the paper emphasising the love that he showed for his items, running his hands over the polished surfaces. Beedham Antiques was established in 1974 and moved to Holme Hall in Bakewell Derbyshire a large Grade I listed 15th/16th Manor House (pictured) where many of the privately owned pieces pieces for sale in this collection were displayed in their authentic surroundings. Paul Beedham, Herbert's son, took over the business in 2012 and has proudly celebrated its 50th year anniversary and is carrying on its tradition of supplying the finest Tudor, Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture to important Manor Houses and collectors. Since our family were great private collectors, many of the pieces on display in the saleroom have not been seen on the market for a number of decades. Beedham Family Bishop & Miller Auctioneers

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19th Mar 25 at 11am GMT